031006-N-8955H-001 Aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Oct. 6, 2003 -- Lithographer 3rd Class Billy Stringfield, from Crawfordsville, Ind., straps on an oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA) during a general quarters drill aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). The self-contained unit is designed to protect the wearer in an atmosphere lacking oxygen or containing harmful gasses, vapors, smoke or dust. The wearer breathes in a closed system in which oxygen is supplied by chemicals in a canister that purifies exhaled air. U. S. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate 1st Class Novia E. Harrington. (RELEASED) US Nav
031006-N-8955H-001 Aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Oct. 6, 2003 -- Lithographer 3rd Class Billy Stringfield, from Crawfordsville, Ind., straps on an oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA) during a general quarters drill aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). The self-contained unit is designed to protect the wearer in an atmosphere lacking oxygen or containing harmful gasses, vapors, smoke or dust. The wearer breathes in a closed system in which oxygen is supplied by chemicals in a canister that purifies exhaled air. U. S. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate 1st Class Novia E. Harrington. (RELEASED) US Navy 031006-N-8955H-001 Lithographer 3rd Class Billy Stringfield, from Crawfordsville, Ind., straps on an oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA) during a general quarters drill aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19)
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