Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Coleen Allen signals to blow through, to push air through fueling hoses, with signal paddles from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) as Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Eric Tims attaches the Essex crest to a fuel probe during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC exercise from June 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. RIMPAC is the world's largest international maritime exercise
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