Mail call about the USS Essex
Summary
Postal Clerk 3rd Class Gloria Pearson, assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex, sorts through bags of mail received while underway. The Essex Expeditionary Strike Group is steaming to support a potential humanitarian assistance tasking in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. Essex is the lead ship of the only forward-deployed U.S. Expeditionary Strike Group and serves as the flagship for Combined Task Force 76, the Navy's only forward-deployed amphibious force commander. Task Force 76 is headquartered at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, Japan, with a detachment in Sasebo, Japan.
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10/05/2008
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Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
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