Posted: 01/01/2014
GULF OF OMAN (Jan. 2, 2014) The French NAVY aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R 91) launches a Rafale marine jet as the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) is underway in the background. Charles de Gaulle, flagship for Task Force 473, is conducting operations with the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group.(U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the French navy by Chief Petty Officer Frederic Duplouich)