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Caption:
Indian Ocean (Feb. 24, 2005) – An MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter,
assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5), picks up
boxes containing he personnel belongings of a group of healthcare
workers from the non-governmental organization “Project
HOPE”. The helicopter will fly the boxes to Banda Aceh on the
island of Sumatra, Indonesia. From Banda Aceh, the volunteers are
scheduled to fly to Singapore and then back to the United States. Mercy
is serving as an enabling platform to assist humanitarian operations
ashore in ways that host nations and international relief organization
find useful. Mercy is currently off the waters of Indonesia in support
of Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian relief effort to aid
the victims of the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia. U.S. Navy photo
by Journalist 1st Class Joshua Smith (RELEASED)
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