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Two U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pavehawk helicopters from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, land on the U.S. Navy Whidbey Island Class Dock Landing Ship USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD 43) during ship deck landing qualification training during typhoon relief operations in the Philippines on Dec. 17, 2004. The helicopters landed on the ship after their last relief supply run at Quezon Province, Philippines. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, sits on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Whidbey Island Class Dock Landing Ship USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD 43) as Sailors watch another 33rd RQS helicopter is refueled on the ship during ship deck landing qualification training during typhoon relief operations in the Philippines on Dec. 17, 2004. The helicopters landed on the ship after their last relief supply run at Quezon Province, Philippines. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, prepare to land at Clark Airfield after delivering relief supplies during typhoon relief operations at Quezon Province, Philippines, on Nov 14, 2004. About 600 U.S. military troops are in the Philippines providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to residents of Quezon Province where widespread flooding and landslide displaced about 168,000 people and leaving more than 1400 dead or missing. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Navy Sailors watch as a U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, lands on the Whidbey Island Class Dock Landing Ship USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD 43) during ship deck landing qualification training during typhoon relief operations in the Philippines on Dec. 17, 2004. The helicopters landed on the ship after their last relief supply run at Quezon Province, Philippines. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

A U.S. Air Force HH-60 helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, transport personnel assisting in the typhoon relief operations at Clark Airfield, Philippines on Dec. 13, 2004. About 600 U.S. military troops are in the Philippines providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to residents of Quezon Province where widespread flooding and landslide displaced about 168,000 people and leaving more than 1400 dead or missing. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

A U.S. Air Force (USAF) HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, deliver relief supplies at the town of General Nakar, Quezon Province, Philippines, during typhoon relief operations on Dec. 16, 2004. About 600 U.S. military troops are in the Philippines providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to residents of Quezon Province where widespread flooding and landslide displaced about 168,000 people and leaving more than 1400 dead or missing. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

A U.S. Marine Corps CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262, based at Marine Corps Air Station, Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, flies over Quezon Province, Philippines during typhoon relief operations on Dec. 14, 2004. About 600 U.S. military troops are in the Philippines providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to residents of Quezon Province where widespread flooding and landslide displaced about 168,000 people and leaving more than 1400 dead or missing. (USAF photo by: MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force MASTER SGT. Chaz Stiefken, a pararescueman from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, signals U.S. Marine Corps Marines to start loading supplies aboard his HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter during typhoon relief operations at Clark Airfield, Philippines on Dec. 13, 2004. About 600 U.S. military troops are in the Philippines providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to residents of Quezon Province where widespread flooding and landslide displaced about 168,000 people and leaving more than 1400 dead or missing. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

A US Navy (USN) MS-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to the Island Knights of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HCS-25) maneuvers over the flight deck of the USN Military Sealift Command (MSC), Henry J. Kaiser Class: Oiler, USNS YUKON (T-AO 202), during Replenishment At Sea (RAS) operations, while the ship is underway in the Philippine Sea, enroute to provide much needed humanitarian assistance for the victims of a devastating land and mudslide that buried a village on the southern part of the Island of Leyte, Republic of the Philippines

A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, receives fuel aboard the U.S. Navy Whidbey Island Class Dock Landing Ship USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD 43) during ship deck landing qualification training during typhoon relief operations in the Philippines on Dec. 17, 2004. The helicopters landed on the ship after their last relief supply run at Quezon Province, Philippines. (USAF PHOTO by MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

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Base: USS Fort Mchenry (LSD 43)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Val Gempis, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Kadena Air Base ,  26.35647, 127.76702
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