Navy sailors aboard the 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) move pallets of humanitarian assistance/disaster relief kits across the shipís flight deck during an underway replenishment with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) in the South China Sea on March 12, 2011. The Blue Ridge loaded the kits to ensure the crew was ready to provide assistance in support of earthquake and tsunami relief operations in Japan as directed.

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