DATE: January 24, 2005 11:57:03 AM PST
Pre-Flight Checks, Indonesia
Jan. 24, 2005
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Sean Burke, navigator, and Petty Officer Douglas O'Brian, flight engineer of Airstation Barbers Point, HI., do pre-flight checks, January 23, before taking over 14,000 pounds of milk and water to Banda Aceh, Indonesia as part of the Coast Guard's aid to tsunami victims continues. Two C130 airplanes and three crews from Barbers Point, HI., Sacramento, Calif., and Clearwater, Fla., are currently deployed to Southeast Asia to deliver aid to tsunami victims, and are currently staging out of Malaysia making daily trips to the affected cities and aid distribution points of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Utaphao, Thailand, and various cities in Sri Lanka. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Mariana O'Leary.
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