SASEBO, Japan (April 20, 2017) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 1st Class Roderick Okeith, left, from Los Angeles, trains air department Sailors on the proper hose-handling procedures during a flight deck fire fighting drill on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Bonhomme Richard, forward-deployed to Sasebo, Japan, is serving forward to provide a rapid-response capability in the event of a regional contingency or natural disaster.

---

Size: 1731px × 1156px
Photo credit: © Ted Small / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ----, 11, 19, 4th, 6th, 76, 7th, air, aircraft, america, amphibious, antonio, archive, armed, army, assault, batarg, bhr, bonhomme, bush, carrier, critical, ctf, cvn77, debbie, defence, deployment, eagle, flag, fleet, force, forces, fost, ghwb, group, japan, lhd6, lpd, mesa, middle, military, namesake, navy, officer, pacific, phibron, ready, reportage, richard, rob, sailors, salute, san, sasebo, sea, service, serviceman, servicemen, ship, smith, soldier, squadron, states, stewards, stewi, task, texas, training, truxtun, united, usa, usn, uss, verde