During Operation AVID RESPONSE (OAR), Brady Anderson (left) director of USAID confers with Navy Captain James Bolcar (right) Commander of Amphibious Squadron Two and Marine Corps Colonel Kenneth J. Glueck, Commanding Offcier of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (SOC) (MEU(SOC)) at Topel, Turkey naval base. Anderson inspected the storage and distribution site maintained by the US for the governemnt of Turkey. OAR is the US European Command contribution to relief efforts following the earthquake that struck about 65 miles east of Istanbul near the town of Izmit. Turkish officials estimate about 600,000 people are homeless
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: AVID RESPONSE
Base: Topel
Country: Turkey (TUR)
Scene Major Command Shown: SIXTH FLEET
Scene Camera Operator: CWO2 Seth Rossman, Usnr
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
31/08/1999
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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