JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 2, 2018) Australian Army soldiers and Marines get ready to practice helocasting - launching combat rubber raiding craft and personnel from the rear of a moving helicopter into open water during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2018 (RIMPAC), Hawaii, July 2018. Twenty-five nations, 46 ships, five submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 27 to Aug. 2 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity whi
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 2, 2018) Australian Army soldiers and Marines get ready to practice helocasting - launching combat rubber raiding craft and personnel from the rear of a moving helicopter into open water during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2018 (RIMPAC), Hawaii, July 2018. Twenty-five nations, 46 ships, five submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 27 to Aug. 2 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 of the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2018 is the 26th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Australian Armed Forces
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