 Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Ian Cotter. These are your headlines from around the fleet. President Barack Obama authorized targeted U.S. air strikes in Iraq last week. U.S. Navy F-A-18 Super Hornets assigned to carrier Air Wing 8 struck Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, targets near Air Bill, Iraq. The aircraft are embarked aboard USS George H.W. Bush and are operating on a scheduled deployment to U.S. Fifth Fleet. More drops of humanitarian aid also began last week to assist thousands of Iraqis stranded in inhospitable conditions on Sinjar Mountain. Sailors and Marines recovered 11 researchers on a remote island in Hawaii, August 8. The Megan Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit evacuated members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The rescue was prompted by the imminent threat of Hurricane Izel, the first hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands in two decades.