060718-N-8146B-028 (Jul. 18, 2006)US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman Third Class Joe Castaneda, member of the USN Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS BOXER (LHD 4) fly-away rocket building team, inserts an MK-4 Mighty Mouse Folding Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR), with a Hydra 70 system WTU-1/B practice warhead attached, into a firing pod aboard the USN Austin Class Amphibious Transport Dock USS DUBUQUE (LPD 8). The BOXER and the DUBUQUE, members of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 5, are preparing for an upcoming Western Pacific deployment.U.S. Navy official photo by Mass Communications SPECIALIST Third Class James F. Bartels (RELEASED)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Dubuque (LPD 8)
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: MC3 James F. Bartels, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
18/07/2006
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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