Caption:
Airmen, Sailors and contractors talk and manage dolphins while aboard a
C-17 Globemaster III Nov. 8, 2009, en route to New Caledonia. The crew
is taking the Sailors and dolphins to Noumea, New Caledonia, where they
will participate in Lagoon Minex 2009, which is a humanitarian project
where U. S. Navy, French, Australian and New Zealand demolition crews
will remove mines left over from World War II from the surrounding
water of the area. The Airmen are from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii,
the Sailors are from Navy Mobile Unit 1 from San Diego, and contractors
are from the Navy Marine Mammals Program. Defense Department
photo/Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young (RELEASED)
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