This painting depicts a gathering of RH-53 helicopters over mother ship, the carrier Nimitz in the Persian Gulf, en route to Desert Rendezvous in Iran. The eight RH-53 helicopters take off from the carrier Nimitz for the Rendezvous with the C-130 transports in Central Iran. It is 7:30 in the evening somewhere in the Arabian Sea as the Navy Sea Stallion flotilla prepares for its journey to the secret meeting on the sands of Dasht-e-Kavir desert, some 250 miles from the city of Teheran. The leading edges of one of the ruinous sandstorms that developed that night are visible on the horizon at the extreme right. The mission was to be joined by six C-130 Hercules cargo planes from U.S. Air Force at the rendezvous site, flown in from Aswan, Egypt, to refuel the choppers and jam Iranian radar. Dust storms and mechanical failures in three of the eight RH-53 helicopters forced abandonment of the mission.