Captain William J. Mitchell, commanding officer of Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron 1 (MPSRON-1), talks to members of the press aboard the SS PFC. EUGENE A. OBREGON. The ship is participating in the first in-stream offload exercise of a maritime prepositioning ship in the open ocean. Equipment and supplies are being unloaded from the ship 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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Date
01/05/1987
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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