5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (Oct. 21, 2017) Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nicholas Palmer (left), a native of Josephine, Pennsylvania and Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Dino Pebenito, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, both assigned to the deck department aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), observe Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) load equipment onto a landing craft, air cushion (LCAC), operated by Sailors of Assault Craft Unit 5, in preparation to go ashore in support of Iron Magic 18. Iron Magic 18 is a combined-arms live-fire bilateral en
5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (Oct. 21, 2017) Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nicholas Palmer (left), a native of Josephine, Pennsylvania and Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Dino Pebenito, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, both assigned to the deck department aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), observe Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) load equipment onto a landing craft, air cushion (LCAC), operated by Sailors of Assault Craft Unit 5, in preparation to go ashore in support of Iron Magic 18. Iron Magic 18 is a combined-arms live-fire bilateral engagement meant to expand levels of cooperation, enhance mutual maritime capabilities, and promote long-term regional stability and interoperability between forces and the United Arab Emirates armed forces.
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