PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 22, 2017) Sailors prepare an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the "Blue Hawks" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78, for launch on the flight deck of Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57). Lake Champlain is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as part of the Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of the 3rd Fleet in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

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