South China Sea. A Navy nurse aboard the hospital ship USS Repose (AH-0016) offers a word of encouragement to a patient who is ready for departure for the United States for further treatment.
The Repose is steaming off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam a few miles south of the 17th parallel. [Women.] [Hospital ships. Transport of sick and wounded.] [Nurses. Nursing.] [Scene.] 10/1967; Number 1142182; Photographer: JOC R.D. Moeser. Original public domain image from Flickr