Visiting Thailand [Image 12 of 13]

PHUKET, THAILAND

09.24.2009

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Chelsea Kennedy 

U.S. Navy           

Airman Thomas Curley, aviation ordnanceman, from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan rolls a cement ring on a sewage tank during work for a Habitat for Humanity house in Phuket. The house is being built for a young girl who has lost both parents in the 2004 tsunami and lives with her grandmother who is severely arthritic. While in Thailand Sailors participated in community relations projects to foster good relations between the U.S. and Thailand. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is on a routine deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility. Operating in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, the U.S. 7th Fleet is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets covering 52 million square miles, with approximately 50 ships, 120 aircraft and 20,000 Sailors and Marines assigned at any given time.

• Date Taken: 09.24.2009
• Date Posted: 09.28.2009 04:58
• Photo ID: 206995
• VIRIN: 090924-N-4995K-131
• Resolution: 2848x4288
• Size: 1.16 MB
• Location: PHUKET, TH