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Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert (l) and SENIOR CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (SW) James Broadwater watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58) as their shipmates rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Gulf in support of the SWA build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert throws a line out from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-58) to his shipmates in a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB). The RHIB pulled the line out to a disabled Iranian fishing boat (not shown) that needs to be towed to shore. ROBERTS is patrolling the Arabian Sea in support of the Southwest Asia (SWA) build-up

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert (l) and SENIOR CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (SW) James Broadwater (r) watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS(FFG 58) as their shipmates rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Gulf in support of the SWA build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert (l) and SENIOR CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (SW) James Broadwater watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58) as their shipmates rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Gulf in support of the SWA build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert (l) and SENIOR CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (SW) James Broadwater watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58) as their shipmates rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Gulf in support of the SWA build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert (l) and SENIOR CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (SW) James Broadwater (r) watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS(FFG 58) as their shipmates rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Gulf in support of the SWA build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

SENIOR CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (SW) James Broadwater (l) and Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58) as their shipmates rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Gulf in support of the SWA build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Boatswain's Mate 1ST Class Earnest Smith (L) and Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Eckert (R) watch from the fantail of USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-58) as their shipmates prepare to pull a towing line out to a disabled Iranian fishing boat (not shown). ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Sea in support of the Southwest Asia (SWA) build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Sailors from USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-58) prepare to leave the ship in a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) to rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat (not shown). ROBERTS was patrolling the Arabian Sea in support of the Southwest Asia (SWA) build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Matt Oravets, Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Bill Wendsel, and Engineman 3rd Class Jared Clarkson from USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-58) prepare to use a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat to help rig up a towing line to a disabled Iranian fishing boat. ROBERTS (not shown) was patrolling the Arabian Sea in support of the Southwest Asia (SWA) build-up when she received orders to assist this ship in distress

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An aerial view of two U.S. Navy Mark 3 patrol craft pulling alongside the captured Iranian mine-laying ship IRAN AJR

American Library Association - Miscellaneous - Truck driver on dock reading an A.L.A. book while waiting for orders

Members of a damage control team equipped with oxygen breathing apparatus wait for orders during a general quarters drill on the destroyer tender USS SAMUEL GOMPERS (AD 37). The ship is underway off the coast of Baja, Mexico

Egyptian Marines carry their RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) amphibious assault boat onto the Navy assault craft. Marines and naval personnel from numerous nations are active participants in both the sea and the beaches of Egypt during this year's BRIGHT STAR 01-02 exercise. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among the US, our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the armed forces to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners

US Navy Engineman 2nd Class Anthony Bartelli (right) holds an underwater speaker called a "bone phone" to US Navy Hull Technician 1ST Class Patrick Wheeler's head so he can experience the sounds and characteristic of a "pinger locator" prior to his dive. Wheeler (center) and Bartelli are both attached to the submarine tender USS EMORY S. LAND (AS 39) (not shown), and are diving with the Navys salvage and rescue ship USS GRASP (ARS 51) as part of an augmentation crew to support 24-hour diving operations. Boatswains Mate CHIEF Donald Dennis, from Charleston, South Carolina, stationed aboard the USS Grasp, holds the Datasonics "pinger locator" in a tub of water to simulate sound. The Remote ...

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A port quarter view of the Iranian navy's Hengam class amphibious landing ship IS TONB underway

Mr. Jack Yusen of the USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (DE 413) Survivors Association, representing the survivors of the World War II destroyer escort, speaks during the commissioning ceremony for the guided missile frigate USS CARR (FFG 52) at Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. The USS CARR is named in honor of Gunner`s Mate 3rd Class Paul Henry Carr (1924-1944), who died heroically aboard the USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS during the battle off the coast of Samar

A port view of the Iranian destroyer escort IIS SAAM (DE-71), redesignated the frigate IS ALVAND (F-71)

United States Coast Guard (USCG) anti-drug teams patrol the Ashley River, Charleston, South Carolina in their Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RIB) during the Charleston Harbor's largest anti-terrorism exercise, Harbor Shield 2002

Right side profile, past the Flight Deck Director, at the cockpit section on an F/A-18 Hornet pilot prepares to lauch from the flight deck of USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) while underway in the Arabian Sea. The ship is in the gulf as part of the Southwest Asia (SWA) build-up of forces in reaction to Iraq's refusal of U.N. sponsored weapon's inspections

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