Camping on the Rim of the Ngorogoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Crater, which is the world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera. The crater is 610m deep and the floor is 260km². The steep sides of the crater mean that it has become a natural enclosure for a very wide variety of wildlife, including most of the species found in East Africa.

Aside from herds of zebra, gazelle and wildebeest, the crater is home to the "big five" of rhinoceros, lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo. The crater plays host to almost every individual species of wildlife in East Africa, and there are an estimated 25,000 animals within the crater. - Wikipedia

Sunset over Ngorogoro Crater.

DoD Identifies Navy Casualty

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Hospitalman Lucas W.A. Emch, 21, of Kent, Ohio, died March 2, 2007, when an Improvised Explosive Device detonated in his vicinity while conducting combat operations in Al-Anbar Province, Iraq. Emch was a hospital corpsman assigned to 1st Marine Logistics Group, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

For further information related to this release the media can contact Navy public affairs office at (703) 697-5342.