Monitoring ocean currents

Staff Sgt. Blake Landry (left) and Lt. Col. Dave Kincaid wait for the signal to deploy a buoy from a C-130 Hercules April 29, 2011, off the eastern coast of Japan. Sergeant Landry is a loadmaster assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Colonel Kincaid is the deputy commander of the 374th Operations Group at Yokota Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)

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Photo essay: Crewmembers deploy buoys to monitor ocean currents

Published May 3, 2011
By Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse
374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

PACIFIC OCEAN (AFNS) -- Crewmembers aboard a C-130 Hercules drop seven buoys here April 29 to help Japanese and U.S. scientists monitor ocean currents.

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Monitoring ocean currents

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