SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 20, 2017) Sailors attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78 lift the safety nets around the flight deck after an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter landed on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) to prepare for a replenishment-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199). Wayne E. Meyer is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as part of the Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control fun
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 20, 2017) Sailors attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78 lift the safety nets around the flight deck after an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter landed on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) to prepare for a replenishment-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199). Wayne E. Meyer is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as part of the Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of 3rd Fleet into the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years.
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