Winter 1999-2000 Photos

Ambassador David J. Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, makes one of the keynote addresses to the 12th US Pacific Command International Military Operations and Law Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Justice Magdangal B. Elma, Chief, Presidential Legal Counsel, the Philippines, addresses the conference.

Mongolia's participants included Mr. Ravjaa Mounkhov of the Ministry of External Relations and Maj. Gen. Suren Baasankhuu, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense.

China's participants included Sr. Col. Chenglin Shi, Director of the Judicial Bureau and Maj. Zhen Li, Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, both of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army.

The conference had 50 general officers or their civilian equivalents as participants, including distinguished speakers such as Prof. Dr. Hasjim Djalal, Indonesia's Ambassador at-Large for the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs and Gen. Suthee Charoonbara, Judge Advocate General for the Royal Thai Armed Forces.

More than 200 attendees from 37 nations participated in the February 1999 conference.

Sr. Col. Nguyen Van Khuynh, Chief of Legislation Department and Col. Nguyen Van Bieu, Country Desk officer, both of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, meet Col. Michael Pent, Senior International Military Advisor to Pacific Air Forces Judge Advocate and another US Officer (seated).

Brig. Gen. Kim Jin-Seob, Judge Advocate General of the Republic of Korea Army, addressed attendees on international legal aspects of self-defense and international cooperative security regimes.

Rear Adm. John D. Hutson, Judge Advocate General of the US Navy; Lt.-Gen. Gennady Zolotukhin, Chief of Legal Services, Russian Federation Armed Forces; and Russian translator Mr. Viktor Polishchuk, enjoy a discussion during a conference break.

US Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel MM2 Albert E. Moore and AOC Patrick E. North after a water duck drop in the Australian-Singapore-U.S. EOD exercise in Guam, TRI-CRAB 99.

Warrant Officer K. T. Wong, Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), watches BM1 (EOD) John Faught, USN and Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Lawrence, RSN, set booby traps for an improvised EOD drill aboard the VBSS MV Dewayne T. Williams.

USN Lt. Dale Hoover and another member of EOD Mobil Unit 5 fire Minimi F89 Automatic Machine Guns during the small arms cross-training phase of TRI-CRAB 99.

USN AO2 Gordon Lewis prepares to disarm an MK-81 during an unexploded ordnance drill in TRI-CRAB 99.

RSN Staff Sgt. Colin Ho gathers water samples for testing after a chemical bomb was found during a TRI-CRAB 99 chemical dispersal drill.

USN EOD personnel hoist gear aboard the USNS Spica during TRI-CRAB's parachute insertion capability drill. Their mission is to disarm two unexploded missiles lodged in the ship.

RAN Lt. Michael Oborn measures an FAB 500 bomb for EOD procedures during TRI-CRAB 99.

RAN EOD personnel en route to the ship while suspended from the SPIE rigging.

RAN EOD personnel secure their arrival area after fast roping to the deck.

Leading Seaman "Rocket" Gabin Stevens of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Clearance Diving Team One (left) and GM2 Trevor Fortner of the US Navy (USN) perform an inverted rappel during rappelling training.

RAN Able Seaman Jason Harp and Seaman Andrew J. Smith and USN AOC (EOD) Patrick E. North, prepare to set off an explosive during advanced demolition training in TRI-CRAB 99.

Staff Sgt. Colin Ho and 1st Sgt. T. NG. Hiong of the RSN Naval Diving Unit prepare to clear a Mark 82 bomb during a runway clearance drill.

RAN Leading Seamen Darren Timms and Gavin Stevens consider how to disarm an 80-series bomb during an unexploded ordnance drill.

Rubber ducks dropped from a US Air Force C-130 aircraft hit the landing zone off the coast of Guam while USN EOD personnel conduct a static line parachute jump into the water.

RAN EOD personnel prepare for a Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) rigging to carry them to the VBSS MV Dewayne T. Williams, where their mission is to find and disarm booby traps.

Members of RAN Clearance Diving Team One fast rope to the deck of the Dewayne T. Williams.

Exercise TRI-CRAB 99 successfully tested the skills of EOD personnel from Australia, Singapore and the US in a wide variety of situations based on realistic, potential threats. Here USN HT1 Rick Gestewitz disarms a booby trap at a simulated house during the exercise.