To relate how Joint Task Force Seven assembled, organized, and dircted the components of this effort--in short, how Operation Redwing became a reality, is the purpose of this account.
Serving as the air boss aboard the amphibious transport ship U.S.S. Trenton - part of a three-ship amphibious ready group operating in 2002 off the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea - Lieutenant Commander Douglas Helton participated in extensive...