Petty Officer 2nd Class Shizhen Huang (right), assigned to Light Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 51, pulls a pallet of supplies to the flight deck of the 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) in the South China Sea on March 21, 2011. The Blue Ridge transferred pallets of humanitarian assistance supplies to the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197) to support Operation Tomodachi relief efforts in Japan.

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