220713-N-MR124-1119 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 13, 2022) Garth Kirk, ship's master of Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197), left, and Matthew Sobey, From Houston Texas, observe as Republic of Korea Navy destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great (DDH 976) sails alongside during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, July 13. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC


220713-N-MR124-1119 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 13, 2022) Garth Kirk, ship's master of Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197), left, and Matthew Sobey, From Houston Texas, observe as Republic of Korea Navy destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great (DDH 976) sails alongside during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, July 13. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.


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