A U.S. Navy E2-C Hawkeye aircraft attached to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 124 takes off from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush while participating in Inherent Resolve in the Persian Gulf Oct. 17, 2014. President Barack Obama authorized humanitarian aid deliveries to Iraq as well as targeted airstrikes to protect U.S. personnel from extremists known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. U.S. Central Command directed the operations.