CORAL SEA (July 21, 2017) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Walter Rutherford, from Speedwell, Tenn., directs a SA-330J Puma helicopter, assigned to the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4), to drop cargo on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20) during a vertical replenishment as a part of Talisman Saber 17. Talisman Saber is a biennial bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the alliance.

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