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Caption:
Central Command Area of Responsibility (Mar. 20, 2003) -- Dive Platoon
service members assigned to Commander Task Unit (CTU-55.4.3) transit
the flight deck to board a MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopter aboard the
amphibious dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44).
CTU-55.4.3 consists of Naval Special Clearance Team-1, Fleet Diving
Unit 3 from the United Kingdom, Clearance Dive Team from Australia, and
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Units 6 and 8 and is conducting
deep/shallow water mine counter measure operations to clear shipping
lanes for humanitarian relief in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to
liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by
Photographer's Mate 1st Class Brien Aho. (RELEASED)
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