220725-N-IT121-1096 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 25, 2022) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman James Gore, left, from Decatur, Tenn., and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Wyatt Helton, from Wasilla, Alaska, scrub the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three 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
220725-N-IT121-1096 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 25, 2022) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman James Gore, left, from Decatur, Tenn., and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Wyatt Helton, from Wasilla, Alaska, scrub the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three 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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