Somewhere on the Coral Sea, the USS Essex (LHD 2) gets replenished by Australian ship HMAS Success (OR 304), an Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) vessel, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, in support of Exercise TANDEM THRUST. TANDEM THRUST 2001 a combined US, Australian, and Canadian military exercise for crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. The biannual exercise is held in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay training area in Queensland, Australia
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST 01
Base: Rockhampton
State: Queensland
Country: Australia (AUS)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Wayne A. Clark, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/05/2001
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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