SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 13, 2016) Sailors aboard the forward-deployed Whidbey Island Class dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) assigned to 7th Fleet, shoot at practice targets while underway in the South China Sea in support of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training. CARAT is a series of annual, bilateral maritime exercises between the Navy, Marine Corps and the armed forces of nine partner nations to include Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Timor-Leste. ( Navy photo by Lance Cpl. Carl King Jr/. Re

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SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 13, 2016) Sailors aboard the forward-deployed Whidbey Island Class dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) assigned to 7th Fleet, shoot at practice targets while underway in the South China Sea in support of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training. CARAT is a series of annual, bilateral maritime exercises between the Navy, Marine Corps and the armed forces of nine partner nations to include Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Timor-Leste. ( Navy photo by Lance Cpl. Carl King Jr/. Released)

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