Onboard the flight deck of the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), USN Sailors prepare their uniforms to be sprayed with Permethrin. Permethrin is effective against multiple species of crawling and flying insects, including mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, bedbugs, chiggers and flies. The USNS MERCY is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean, conducting a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Timothy F. Sosa, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
12/05/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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