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Official US Navy image - http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/images/ima-ship2.html - of the Reid approaching supply ship USS Ranier (AOE 7). Photo taken by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Weathers, Oct 1996.
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