![US Navy (USN) Information System Technician First Class (IT1) Josh Davis performs a communications check with a Inmarsat satellite phone system to establish communications between the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) out at sea and the advance team upon arrival in Nias, Indonesia. At the request of the government of Indonesia, MERCY and the MSC Combat Stores Ship USNS NIAGARA FALLS (T-AFS 3) [not shown] are on station off the coast of Nias, providing assistance as determined appropriate and necessary with earthquake disaster relief efforts and provide medical assistance to those in need](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn10/L3Bob3RvLzIwMDUvMDQvMDQvdXMtbmF2eS11c24taW5mb3JtYXRpb24tc3lzdGVtLXRlY2huaWNpYW4tZmlyc3QtY2xhc3MtaXQxLWpvc2gtZGF2aXMtcGVyZm9ybXMtYjJkZWM5LTEwMjQuanBn/320/487/jpg "US Navy (USN) Information System Technician First Class (IT1) Josh Davis performs a communications check with a Inmarsat satellite phone system to establish communications between the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) out at sea and the advance team upon arrival in Nias, Indonesia. At the request of the government of Indonesia, MERCY and the MSC Combat Stores Ship USNS NIAGARA FALLS (T-AFS 3) [not shown] are on station off the coast of Nias, providing assistance as determined appropriate and necessary with earthquake disaster relief efforts and provide medical assistance to those in need")
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US Navy (USN) Information System Technician First Class (IT1) Josh Davis performs a communications check with a Inmarsat satellite phone system to establish communications between the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) out at sea and the advance team upon arrival in Nias, Indonesia. At the request of the government of Indonesia, MERCY and the MSC Combat Stores Ship USNS NIAGARA FALLS (T-AFS 3) [not shown] are on station off the coast of Nias, providing assistance as determined appropriate and necessary with earthquake disaster relief efforts and provide medical assistance to those in need
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
State: Nais
Country: Indonesia (IDN)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Jeffrey Russell, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/04/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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