EAST CHINA SEA (March 8, 2017) Seaman Trevor Chastain, from Seattle, calls out the flag sequence from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Sazanami (DD 113) aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) during a flag hoisting exercise between the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. 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
EAST CHINA SEA (March 8, 2017) Seaman Trevor Chastain, from Seattle, calls out the flag sequence from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Sazanami (DD 113) aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) during a flag hoisting exercise between the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. 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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