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Article: "Ready to go on Game Day": At sea with the Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group--interview with Rear Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald Commander, USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group
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- Sea Power
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- September 1, 2001
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Interview with Rear Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald Commander, USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group
Rear Adm. Mark P Fitzgerald assumed command of Carrier Group 8 and the USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group in March 2001. A highly experienced attack pilot, Fitzgerald led the VA-46 "Clansmen" in the first Navy air strike on Baghdad during the opening hours of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. A veteran of U.S. humanitarian operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he also commanded Carrier Air Wing 14 during support of Operation Southern Watch in the Persian Gulf while serving on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in 1994. Following his assignment as executive assistant to the Supreme Allied ...