SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 20, 2017) Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Nicholas Gravesande, from Brooklyn, New York, teaches Sailors about the M240 gun attached to an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78, after it landed on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) to prepare for a replenishment-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199). Wayne E. Meyer is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as part o
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 20, 2017) Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Nicholas Gravesande, from Brooklyn, New York, teaches Sailors about the M240 gun attached to an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78, after it landed on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) to prepare for a replenishment-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199). Wayne E. Meyer 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 3rd Fleet into the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years.
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