A starboard side view of the Republic of Korea (ROK) KWANGGAETO THE GREAT (KDX-1) CLASS: Destroyer YANGMANCHUN (DDH 973) underway as a US Navy (USN) HH-46D Sea Knight helicopter from Combat Support Squadron FIVE (HC-5) conducts vertical replenishment (VERTREP), during Exercise FOAL EAGLE 2002. The Exercise is an annual joint and combined field training and maritime exercise between US Military and ROK armed forces, and is designed to strengthen relationships and improve interoperability between the forces of the two nations through real world training scenarios
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE 2002
Country: Unknown
Scene Major Command Shown: USS ESSEX (LHD 2)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Clover B. Christensen, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
25/03/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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