US Navy (USN) Information Systems Technician First Class (IT1) John Opsteegh performs a communications check with a TT-3080A Inmarsat satellite phone system to establish communications with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) [not shown] from the airport in Nias, Indonesia. At the request of the government of Indonesia, the 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 in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck the island March 28, 2005
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Nias
State: Aceh
Country: Indonesia (IDN)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Rebecca J. Moat, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
06/04/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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