EAST CHINA SEA (Oct. 9, 2018) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Rakeem Crockett, from Denver, signals to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the “Island Knights” of the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, as it prepares to remove palettes from the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea. Benfold is forward-deployed to the 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

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