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Caption:
Central Command Area of Responsibility (Jun. 29, 2003) -- USS Chosin
(CG 65) enforces an exclusionary perimeter as commercial oil tanker
AbQaiq readies itself to receive oil at Mina-Al-Bkar Oil terminal
(MABOT), an off shore Iraqi oil installation. AbQaiq is the first
commercial vessel to receive a post-war shipment of crude oil for
export at Mabot. AbQaiq is scheduled to take on an estimated 2
million barrels of crude oil. Chosin is on deployment in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy and coalition forces are helping to
provide security, enforcing an exclusionary perimeter around the
terminal. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Andrew
M. Meyers. (RELEASED)
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