Members of Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) Team 8 run across the flight deck of the fleet oiler USNS JOSHUA HUMPHREYS (T-AO-188) after descending a rope from a Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter during a boarding exercise. SEAL Team 8 provided boarding teams to assist ships of the Maritime Interdiction Force in their enforcement of U.N. sanctions against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Country: Red Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Savage
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/02/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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