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A Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU(SOC)) stops to fuel at an Air Force 50,000 fuel bladder at the forward aerial refueling site. The site is operated by Marines with the Marine Wings Support Squadron 273 at the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A Canadian JP-5 diesel fuel truck pulls up to an arriving KC-130 transport aircraft to pick up fuel and remove it to a safe storage area. The helicopter refueling station is held by Canadian troops who are taking part in Operation Provide Relief

A silhouette of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from the USS Niagara Falls as it drops supplies in the port. The supplies flown in from the USS Niagara Falls were to replenish the Maritime Prepositioning Ships docked in Mogadishu. The Maritime Prepositioning Ships are unloading military supplies for the US Marines who are part of the Unified Task Force

A port quarter view of the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) in dry dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. The fueling station for the Pioneer remotely piloted vehicle can be seen in what was previously the 40mm gun tub on the stern. Aviation gasoline is stored there in a rubber bladder carried on a wheeled cart which is secured to inclined tracks and can be jettisoned in an emergency

Sailors store a fuel cell in the hangar bay overhead aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN (AMN) Stephanie Carrizosa, 35th Operation Support Squadron (OSS) and AIRMAN 1ST Class (A1C) Steven Smith, 35th Maintenance Squadron (MXS) place a filler cap inside a 370-gallon fuel tank during Exercise Beverly Sunrise at Misawa Air Base (AB), Japan (JPN)

Persian Gulf. Crewmen stand by aboard the guided missile frigate USS FORD (FFG 54) as it pulls alongside the dock landing ship USS MOUNT VERNON (LSD 39) to refuel during an escort operation for reflagged tankers

A MiG-29A Fulcrum aircraft, left, and a MiG-29UB Fulcrum aircraft, right, are refueled by an IL-76MD Candid-B aircraft during a stop at the base. The Soviet are en route to an air show in Canada

Tug boats assist the Royal Canadian navy auxiliary oil replenishment ship HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509) that had experienced an engine fire at sea as they pass by the Battleship Missouri Memorial

Portable fuel storage bladders are being used to store fuel at the Canadian held helicopter refueling station on the coast line not far from Mogadishu. In the background are numerous ship involved in Operation Provide Relief. The one in the center is the Military Sealift Command chartered oiler MOUNT VERNON (T-AOT-5083)

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE RELIEF

Base: Beledwegne

Country: Somalia (SOM)

Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawowlicz

Release Status: Released to Public

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26/01/1993
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label_outline Explore Bladders, Coast Line, Mogadishu

A Vietnamese refugee mother poses for a photograph with her children aboard the petroleum tanker OVERSEAS VIVIAN (T-AOT-2006) as the ship arrives in port at Naval Base, Subic Bay. The commercial tanker, which is operating under a charter with the Navy's Military Sealift Command, is transporting 109 Vietnamese refugees to Naval Base, Subic Bay, following their recovery from a disabled boat in the South China Sea on April 20th. Exact Date Shot Unknown

US Navy (USN) Gunners Mate, SEAMAN (SN) Travis D. Parker, onboard the Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship, USS ESSEX (LHD 2), prepares to shoot a 7.62 mm M14 rifle with a shot line adapter to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Henry J. Kaiser Class Oiler, USNS WALTER S. DIEHL (T-AO 193) during an underway replenishment (UNREP), while the USS ESSEX is conducting Spring Patrol operations and exercises in the Philippine Sea

US Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40, embarked onboard the Military Sealift Command Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), clean the ground before building a basketball court at a local school during a community relations project at Tarakan, Indonesia. The MERCY is currently off the coast to provide humanitarian and civic assistance to the people of this coastal city. The ship is in its third month of a scheduled five-month deployment to host nations in the Pacific Islands, and South and Southeast Asia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Ryan Clement) (Released)

US Embassy in Mogadishu - Chancery Office Building - 1989

A close-up of two C-5s on the flight line, soon to be on their way to Mogadishu, Somalia

US Army SPECIALIST Michael Boguth, Alpha Company, 2nd of the 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, demonstrates one of the four firing positions of a AT-4 (Anti-tank Variation Four); the sitting position. The others are standing, kneeling and another sitting position. The class was given at Range #6 just outside of Mogadishu Airport. Straight on shot of an abandoned and dilapidated building with overturned Soviet trucks inside. The building is located at an abandoned Soviet Base north of Sword Base and is being prepared for destruction. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

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

Portable Qur’an Manuscript - Arabic illuminated manuscript

US Embassy in Mogadishu - Compound Site - 1986

Soviet Sailors perform a traditional Russian dance for the large crowd of American Sailors gathered on the decks of the Replenishment Oiler USS MILWAUKEE (AOR 2). Three Soviet ships are in Norfolk for a five-day goodwill visit. The Guided Missile Cruiser MARSHAL USTINOV (CG 088), the Guided Missile Destroyer OTLICHNYY (DDG 434) and the Replenishment Oiler GENRIKH GASANOV are the first Soviet naval vessels to visit an American military port

Marines with 1ST Marine Division, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, Echo Company, take classes conducted by the Navy for Naval drills that will be performed by Marines and Sailors aboard the USS MOUNT VERNON (LSD-39) during Kernel Blitz '99. Kernel Blitz '99 was a amphibious assault beach landing (not shown) conducted primarily by 1ST Marine Division

S44-74-045 - STS-044 - Earth observations taken during the STS-44 mission

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portable fuel storage bladders portable fuel storage bladders store store fuel canadian helicopter station coast line coast line mogadishu ship operation relief center military sealift command military sealift command oiler vernon refueling high resolution jo 1 joe gawowlicz us national archives somalia