Members of Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 tie lighters together alongside the maritime prepositioning ship SS PFC. EUGENE A. OBREGON.The lighters are participating in the first in-stream offload exercise of a maritime prepositioning ship in the open ocean. Equipment and supplies are being unloaded by the 6th Marine Amphibious Brigade and shuttled to shore by lighter as part of exercise Solid Shield '87
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '87
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT. Hugh Hawthorne
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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amphibious
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tie
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eugene
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exercise
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atlantic ocean
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exercise solid shield
marine amphibious brigade
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hugh hawthorne
us navy
us national archives
Date
01/05/1987
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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