JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (July 16, 2018) Royal Australian Navy Commodore Ivan Ingham, commander, Combined Task Force (CTF) 176, speaks to crewmen assigned to CTF-172 during a tour of a P-8A Poseidon aircraft on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, July 16. Twenty-five nations, 46 ships, five submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 27 to Aug. 2 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opp
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (July 16, 2018) Royal Australian Navy Commodore Ivan Ingham, commander, Combined Task Force (CTF) 176, speaks to crewmen assigned to CTF-172 during a tour of a P-8A Poseidon aircraft on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, July 16. Twenty-five nations, 46 ships, five submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 27 to Aug. 2 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships between participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2018 is the 26th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
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