Sailors guide (click here) an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Valions of Strike
Fighter Squadron (VFA) 15 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS
George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Gulf, in this handout image taken and
released on August 8, 2014. Two F/A-18 aircraft from the squadron
conducted an airstrike on Friday against Islamic State artillery used
against Kurdish forces defending the city of Arbil in northern Iraq, a
Pentagon spokesman said. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class
Lorelei Vander Griend/U.S. Navy)