It pays to have a friend who is also a Photographers Mate. This is my ship, the Theodore Roosevelt, transiting the Suez Canal on the way to Desert Storm in January 1991. I was already flown off and in Kuwait with 3 SEALs so I was rewarded when I finally got back aboard. The "TR" is followed by her task group and would be in the Persian Gulf by 17 January to launch some of the first air strikes on Hussein's Army.