PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 29, 2012) Operations Specialist 3rd Class Ryan Comtois, a search and rescue swimmer aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63), communicates with Sailors as they lower a rigid-hull inflatable boat from the port side boat deck. Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the Navy’s only forward deployed carrier strike group based out of Yokosuka, Japan and is currently conducting a routine Western Pacific patrol. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Paul Kelly/ Released) 120929-N-TX154-122 Join the


PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 29, 2012) Operations Specialist 3rd Class Ryan Comtois, a search and rescue swimmer aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63), communicates with Sailors as they lower a rigid-hull inflatable boat from the port side boat deck. Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the Navy’s only forward deployed carrier strike group based out of Yokosuka, Japan and is currently conducting a routine Western Pacific patrol. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Paul Kelly/ Released) 120929-N-TX154-122 Join the conversation - Official Navy Imagery - Sailors work to lower a RHIB.


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