JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (July 15, 2018) — Lt. Cmdr. Brian Morgan, CTF-172 Public Affairs Officer, speaks to Nick Mikula, Deputy Communications Director of the House Committee on Armed Services, during a tour of a P-8A Poseidon on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, July 15. 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
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (July 15, 2018) — Lt. Cmdr. Brian Morgan, CTF-172 Public Affairs Officer, speaks to Nick Mikula, Deputy Communications Director of the House Committee on Armed Services, during a tour of a P-8A Poseidon on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, July 15. 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.
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