Some of the eight rubber bladders, each holding 500 gallons of fresh drinking water, wait for transport delivery by helicopter to refugees evacuated due to Hurricane Katrina, on the flightdeck of the US Navy (USN) Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS BATAAN (LHD 5) while underway in the Gulf of Mexico. The Navy's involvement in the Hurricane Katrina Humanitarian Assistance Operations is led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense (DoD)
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Bataan (LHD 5)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Jeremy L. Grisham, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
03/09/2005
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