US Navy AIRMAN Apprentice (AA) Robert Ging monitors the pressure gauge on an Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) fire fighting agent, pump station aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). The NIMITZ and her embarked air wing continue to conduct normal ship board maintenance and preparation, while patrolling the waters and the skies in the Northern Persian Gulf. U.S. Forces are enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq under Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 24 November 1997
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Nimitz (CVN 68)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN John Bringer Jr., USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/11/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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