Military vehicles are lined to be loaded aboard the maritime prepositioning ship SS PFC. EUGENE A. OBREGON (T-AK-3006), tied up at the pier. The ship is participating in the first in-stream offload exercise of a maritime prepositioning ship in the open ocean. Equipment and supplies will be unloaded from the ship by the 6th Marine Amphibious Brigade and shuttled to shore by lighter as part of exercise Solid Shield '87
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '87
Base: Wilmington
State: North Carolina (NC)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT. Hugh Hawthorne
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/04/1987
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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