US Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Michael Tune has a firm grip on the floatation coat of US Navy Aviation Ordnanceman AIRMAN Erik White as he attempts to rig a bundle of ammunition slings during replenishment at sea aboard USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). Slings are used to transfer ammunitions during a Vertical Replenishment at Sea (VERTREP). Truman and its battle group are participating in Exercise UNIFIED SPIRIT, a NATO led United Nations training exercise simulating peace keeping operations off the Atlantic coast
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: UNIFIED SPIRIT
Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Shawn Eklund, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
18/10/2000
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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