USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) prepares for flight operations during Exercise Keen Sword 2003 off the coast of southern Japan. The seventh in a series of regularly scheduled joint/bilateral field training exercises involving the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), Keen Sword 2003 is designed to train and evaluate wartime functions and bilateral cooperation against a backdrop of a regional contingency scenario with direct and immediate consequences to the U.S. and Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer?s Mate 3rd Class Charles Henry Panter.