Onboard the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), USN Lieutenant (LT) Stella Annunziato (foreground right), an Emergency Room (ER) Nurse, explains how to properly apply a hair traction splint for a femoral fracture, during the Corpsman Olympics. The Corpsman Olympics are held as an assessment tool to evaluate efficiency during crisis situations. 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: Josn Mike Leporati, 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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