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Opting to go in hands-first, Lance Cpl. Ivan Ortega, a Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 ground communications technician, reaches down into the murky pool water to extract gravel and sediment during a pool clean-up event at the Futashika community pools Aug. 1. The Futashika community has been unable to use their pools for the past three weeks because heavy rainfalls flooded the pools with large rocks, gravel and sediment.
090801-M-1234D-003.jpg Photo By: Lance Cpl. Alex Degenhardt

Aug 1, 2009
Iwakuni, Japan - Opting to go in hands-first, Lance Cpl. Ivan Ortega, a Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 ground communications technician, reaches down into the murky pool water to extract gravel and sediment during a pool clean-up event at the Futashika community pools Aug. 1. The Futashika community has been unable to use their pools for the past three weeks because heavy rainfalls flooded the pools with large rocks, gravel and sediment.


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