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    USS Harpers Ferry Action [Image 20 of 22]

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    A worker in personal protective equipment is collecting a liquid sample from an industrial pipe valve on what appears to be a ship or offshore platform. The worker is holding a large glass jar containing an amber-colored liquid with foam, suggesting the sample has just been drawn from the pipeline. The industrial setting features large flanged pipes, a yellow handwheel valve, and various structural components typical of marine or petrochemical infrastructure.

    SOUTH CHINA SEA

    10.27.2010

    Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Doolin 

    U.S. Navy           

    Petty Officer 3rd Class Courtney Arce, engineman, tests fuel for impurities as it is pumped aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) during a fuel replenishment. Harpers Ferry is part of the permanently forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is underway in the western Pacific Ocean.

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    Date Taken: 10.27.2010
    Date Posted: 10.29.2010 01:45
    Photo ID: 334429
    VIRIN: 101027-N-8335D-045
    Resolution: 3000x1996
    Size: 1.11 MB
    Location: SOUTH CHINA SEA
    Web Views: 61
    Downloads: 22

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