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Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Ornelas, requirements officer at the Naval Supply Center, converses with a civilian employee in the computer room

STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Donald Murry of the 748th Aircraft Generation Squadron threads panel screws so SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Keny Alter can tighten them down during an aircraft battle damage repair exercise

A group of midshipmen enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) wait to take off for a demonstration flight in a CH-46 Sea King helicopter. The midshipmen are participating in a one-week aviation training program designed to familiarize them with the work of the naval aviators

LT. Wayne Gordermute is welcomed to Clark Air Base upon his arrival aboard a C-141 Starlifter aircraft. LT. Gordermute was recently released from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Lewis Perkins, 388th

Three crewmembers of the 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron prepare to load an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile on an F-16 Fighting Falcon's fighter aircraft. They are participating in the June Air Defense Exercise

CAPT. Dennis V. McGinn, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61), greets a Russian helicopter crewman on the flight deck following the landing of a Ka-27 Helix helicopter aboard the ship. On the left is CAPT. (2nd Rank) Mihail Abramov, commanding officer of the guided missile destroyer Admiral Vinogradov (BPK-554), the helicopter's home base ship. Both the Vinogradov and the RANGER are part of a multinational naval force participating in exercises in the region

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An officer is reunited with his family after their return from the United States. Family members of military personnel are returning to the area after spending two months in the United States as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, the evacuation of military dependents following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo

Naval personnel from Naval Station, Subic Bay, stand by as they wait for family members to disembark from a plane. Dependents are returning to the area after spending two months in the United States as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, the evacuation of military dependents following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo

Commanding officers of various commands in the Naval Station, Subic Bay area stand in front of Navy personnel waiting to welcome family members upon their return home. Dependents are returning to the area after spending two months in the United States as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, the evacuation of military dependents following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo

Commanding officers of various commands in the Naval Station, Subic Bay area prepare to welcome their own families as they stand in front of Navy personnel waiting for returning loved ones. Dependents are returning to the area after spending two months in the United States as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, the evacuation of military dependents following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo

Evacuees from Naval Station, Subic Bay and Naval Air Station, Cubi Point stand in line for processing en route to the United States. Civilian and military personnel and their dependents are being evacuated from the Philippines in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption as part of Operation FIERY VIGIL.

Dependents of U.S. military personnel prepare to board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) during evacuation of Clark Air Base and Naval Station, Subic Bay. Evacuees are being transported from the area in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that came alive on June 10th for the first time in over 600 years

Members of the media film a Boeing 747 commercial aircraft after its arrival at the station. The aircraft is transporting family members of military personnel who are returning to the area after spending two months in the United States as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, the evacuation of military dependents following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo

U.S. military dependents board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) as they prepare to depart in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano, which erupted for the first time in over 600 years, forced the U.S. military to coordinate Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts to remove more than 20,000 evacuees from the area

Aerial view shows the destroyed fuel systems maintenance dock and aircraft weather shelters after more than four inches of volcanic ash fell as a result of the June 10 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. More than 20,000 evacuees have been removed from the area as a part of the U.S. military's Operation Fiery Vigil

A Navy couple is reunited as military dependents return to the area after spending two months in the United States as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, the evacuation of military dependents following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo

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Subject Operation/Series: FIERY VIGIL

Base: Naval Air Station, Cubi Point

State: Luzon

Country: Philippines(PHL)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Sw) Barry Q. Orell

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Ash covers the naval station following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano which came to life in June 1991 for the first time in over 600 years

Generating equipment lies beneath a section of collapsed roof in the base power plant. The roof collapsed under the weight of the volcanic ash that fell during the eruption of Mount Pinatubo

Crew members from the submarine tender USS PROTEUS (AS-19) clear away ash and debris on the grounds of the Patanawa Elementary School. The devastation resulted from the June eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that came alive for the first time in over 600 years

Civilian and military personnel board the last commercial aircraft to depart from NAS, Cubi Point on the day prior to the offical end of U.S. military presence in the Philippines. Control of both NAS, Cubi Point, and Naval Station, Subic Bay, is being relinquished to the Philippine government

Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R) and members of Congress visit with US Air Force (USAF) officers and enlisted members at a forward-deployed location that was home for these deployed servicemen for the past two months during their support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Two Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 (NMCB-4) guide a forklift operator as he lowers a piece of equipment into the bed of an M-817 5-ton dump truck. NMCB-4 is preparing to leave Cubi Point after helping to clean up the volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo that covered the area and caused some buildings to collapse

Navy personnel at the jet engine shop stand at parade rest during a visit by Admiral James D. Watkins, commander in chief, US Pacific Fleet

Vice Admiral James R. Hogg arrives at the Operations Maintenance Division hangar for a change of command ceremony. Captain James N. Jacann in is relieving Captain Paul D. Stevenson as commanding officer of Naval Air Station, Cubi Point

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