ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE?U.S. commanders on Monday reviewed their bombing raids on Afghanistan, showing video clips of battle damage taken by infrared cameras aboard F 14 and F/A-18 fighters. The runs had a ?very high success rate,? they said.
After flying about 70 sorties, pilots reloaded their weapons for possible further strikes. Tomahawk missiles also were fired from cruisers in Sunday night’s strikes, which the admiral of the USS Enterprise battle group in the Arabian Sea said primarily targeted air defenses.
The military made ?extraordinary efforts? to limit collateral damage, the admiral told reporters Monday. ?Our objective is to terrorize the terrorists.?
The Enterprise is the flagship of a battle group that includes about a dozen ships and 7,500 personnel.
It was just two days into its trip home from the Gulf when the terror attacks on the United States hit.
It quickly turned around.