A sailor helps a shipmate with the strap of his Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (OBA) during OBA usage recertification aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The ship is taking part in Earnest Will, a convoy mission in which reflagged Kuwaiti tankers are escorted through waters of the Gulf by U.S. naval ships
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: EARNEST WILL
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: PHCS Mitchell
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/07/1988
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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