SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 5, 2017) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) pulls alongside the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) pulls alongside the Henry J. Kaiser-class oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) in preparation for a replenishment-at-sea. 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
SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 5, 2017) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) pulls alongside the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) pulls alongside the Henry J. Kaiser-class oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) in preparation for a replenishment-at-sea. 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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