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Kurdish refugees gather at a health clinic and water purification station set up by members of Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 24. The clinic and water station are part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Members of Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 24 distribute food to Kurdish refugees at a health clinic and water purification station. The clinic, water station, and food supplies are part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees gather at a health clinic and water purification station to receive food supplies from Members of Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 24. The clinic, water station, and food supplies are part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees children gather around members of Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 24 near a health clinic and water purification station set up by the Marines. The clinic and water station are part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees, assisted by U.S. military personnel, build a water tank foundation at their camp. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees gather to collect purified water at their tent city in Zakhu. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees gather outside the fence at a medical clinic and water purification station set up on the outskirts of the city by members of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24), which is providing services to the refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Soldiers fill containers with purified water for Kurdish refugees on the outskirts of a tent city near Zakhu. Such necessities are being provided as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid those fleeing the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugee children prepare to take containers to a well at their tent city near Zakhu. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees gather at a health clinic and water purification station set up by members of Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 24. The clinic and water station are part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Base: Zakhu

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: JOC Marjie Shaw

Release Status: Released to Public

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27/04/1991
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label_outline Explore Water Purification Station, Water Station, Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group

US Army (USA) Corps of Engineers (USACE) Derek Walker (third from left, wearing desert camouflage), USACE Construction Representative, speaks with several Iraqi engineers, working with the USACE, about the progress of the Sumail Primary Health Clinic being built in Dahuk, Dahuk Province, Iraq (IRQ), by Iraqi contractors and sub-contractors as an US Army (USA) Corps of Engineers (USACE) designed and managed C type clinic (the largest and most capable of all health clinics) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A water tank and a line of M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) stand on an airfield. Equipment is being delivered to an airfield as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

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A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter patrols over a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. The encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Brian Olsen, Dentist, Health Services Detachment, Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 11 (MSSG-11), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), flosses 13-year old Muna Hamzas teeth during a Humanitarian Assistance Operation (HAO) in the village of Ash Shafiyah, Iraq. This HAO provided medical and dental treatments to more than 100 Iraqis during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Two members of the Army's 284th Military Police Company search for unexploded ordnance along a dirt road. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) carrying U.S. military personnel enters Zakhu, part of convoy arriving to assist Kurdish refugees at a nerby tent city. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to assist refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

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Bizara, a Kurdish refugee child, visits a well set up in a tent city near Zakhu. The site was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

An aerial view of a U.S. military encampment, with OH-58 Kiowa and AH-64 Apache helicopters parked throughout the camp. Allied forces are in the area as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Local residents gather to watch as Marines from an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team attached to Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) as they load ordnance into the back of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The disposal of discarded Iraqi munitions is being conducted in conjunction with Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from Charlie Company, 1ST Battalion, 5th Marines, Regimental Combat Team (RCT-5), 1ST Marine Division out of Camp Pendleton, California, on a foot patrol in the city of Baghdad near Saddam Husseins Presidential Palace, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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kurdish refugees kurdish refugees health clinic health clinic water purification station water purification station marine expeditionary unit service group marine expeditionary unit service support group water station effort aid forces saddam hussein iraq operation provide comfort military operations high resolution comfort operation joc marjie shaw marine expeditionary unit us national archives