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Two Military Sealift Command (MSC) Bob Hope Class Large, Medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off (LMSR) (T-AKR) ships (foreground and upper right) and Watson Class LMSR (foreground rear and left rear) ships tied-up at the pier at the port of Mina Ash-Shuaibah, Kuwait, to take part in troop rotations from Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. MSC is the transportation provider for the Department of Defense with the responsibility of providing strategic sealift and ocean transportation for all military forces overseas
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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Mina Ash-Shu'Aibah
Country: Kuwait (KWT)
Scene Camera Operator: JO3 Eric Beauregard
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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Date
02/03/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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