INDIAN OCEAN (March 24, 2021) Navy Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Juan Silva, from Defiance, Ohio, signals the pilots of an MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to the “Eightballers” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8, from the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) March 24, 2021. Russell, part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, is on a scheduled deployment to the 7th Fleet area of operations. As the Navy’s largest forward-deployed fleet, 7th Fleet routinely operates and interacts with 35 maritime nations while conducting missions
INDIAN OCEAN (March 24, 2021) Navy Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Juan Silva, from Defiance, Ohio, signals the pilots of an MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to the “Eightballers” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8, from the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) March 24, 2021. Russell, part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, is on a scheduled deployment to the 7th Fleet area of operations. As the Navy’s largest forward-deployed fleet, 7th Fleet routinely operates and interacts with 35 maritime nations while conducting missions to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific Region.
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