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An aerial view of the submarine rescue area at Naval Air Station, North Island

U.S. Army Soldiers, 163rd Transportation Detachment,

Soldiers, marines and sailors set up pallets of supplies

Cadets with the Wisconsin Challenge Academy march near

A port bow view of the submarine tenders USS EMORY S. LAND (AS-39) and the USS HUNLEY (AS-31) moored to the destroyer and submarine piers at Norfolk Naval Base. Several Los Angeles class attack submarines are tied to the pier in the foreground

USS Mount Whitney arrives in Batumi, Georgia

Onboard the flight deck of the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), USN Sailors prepare their uniforms to be sprayed with Permethrin. Permethrin is effective against multiple species of crawling and flying insects, including mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, bedbugs, chiggers and flies. The USNS MERCY is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean, conducting a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia

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Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Timothy F. Sosa, USN

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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12/05/2006
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label_outline Explore Permethrin, Ticks, Mosquitoes

US Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40, embarked onboard the Military Sealift Command Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), clean the ground before building a basketball court at a local school during a community relations project at Tarakan, Indonesia. The MERCY is currently off the coast to provide humanitarian and civic assistance to the people of this coastal city. The ship is in its third month of a scheduled five-month deployment to host nations in the Pacific Islands, and South and Southeast Asia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Ryan Clement) (Released)

Builder 3rd Class Matthew Spence and Philippine navy

[Assignment: 48-DPA-06-28-07_SOI_K_Eagle_Delist] Press conference [and related ceremonial activities, at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the official announcement of the] Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to remove the bald eagle from the list of threatened and endangered species, [with remarks by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett,, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, and other federal agency and conservation organization officials] [48-DPA-06-28-07_SOI_K_Eagle_Delist_DOI_4724.JPG]

US Navy (USN) Aviation Warfare Systems Operator First Class (AW1) Ryan Johnson, assigned to the Fleet Aviation Specialized Operational Training Group (FASOTG) demonstrates how to cut into a needle cactus as food procurement to survive in the wilderness, during a class held at Warner Springs, California (CA). USN Sailors from the Survival, Evasion, Rescue and Escape (SERE) Detachment donated their time and expertise on wilderness survival techniques to train Boy Scouts from Troop 170 of Baypark, San Diego, CA

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U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Joseph Sporleder, the

[Assignment: 48-DPA-02-08-08_SOI_K_FWS_LA_Bird] Announcement, at the Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of the proposal to remove the brown pelican from the Endangered Species List, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [joining Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall, and other officials at the signing and press conference marking the recovery of the species in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states] [48-DPA-02-08-08_SOI_K_FWS_LA_Bird_DOI_9793.JPG]

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Local medical personnel stand under a sign thanking the crew of the hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) for their assistance. The ship is visiting various ports in the Philippines during the first phase of its five-month humanitarian medical service and training mission. While in the Philippines, US Navy, Army and Air Force medical personnel embarked aboard the MERCY are providing treatment for indigent Filipinos, both ashore and aboard ship

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US Navy (USN) aircraft from the USN Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) perform a formation flyover during an air power demonstration for family members of USN Sailors embarked aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) during a Tiger Cruise in the Pacific Ocean. Tiger Cruise is provided for family members and friends of the crew to give them an opportunity to experience life at sea for a week

A Karner blue butterfly is shown July 26, 2019, at

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