GULF OF THAILAND (June 8, 2013) Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) retrieve the winch from a

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GULF OF THAILAND (June 8, 2013) Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) retrieve the winch from a Royal Thai Navy S-70B Navyhawk helicopter assigned to Royal Thai Navy Squadron 02, stationed at U'tapao Air Base, during a helicopter in-flight refueling simulation during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Thailand 2013. More than 1,200 Sailors and Marines are participating in CARAT Thailand. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste.

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