Port Services and US Navy (USN) Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (HM-15), Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia (VA), personnel, load a MK-105 Magnetic Minesweeping System (a.k.a. the sled), onto the USN Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS BATAAN (LHD 5) in preparation for the exercise PANAMAX 2005 (FUERZAS ALIADAS PANAMAX 2005). The MK-105 "sled" is towed behind a MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during mine countermeasure operations. PANAMAX is a joint exercise between Panama, the US and sixteen other countries simulating terrorist threats to the Panama Canal
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Ingleside
State: Texas (TX)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: LHD-5
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Ken J. Riley, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/07/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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