GULF OF THAILAND (June 10, 2013) Amphibious assault vehicles exit the well deck of the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing

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GULF OF THAILAND (June 10, 2013) Amphibious assault vehicles exit the well deck of the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) in preparation for a joint amphibious assault exercise with the Royal Thai Navy as a part of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Thailand 2013. 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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