CORAL SEA (July 7, 2017) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuel) Airman E'n Dix (right), from Crisfield, Md., assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), and Sgt. Caleb Baker, from Stanardsville, Va., assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), perform routine flushing maintenance at a fueling station aboard Bonhomme Richard during Talisman Saber 17. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats
CORAL SEA (July 7, 2017) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuel) Airman E'n Dix (right), from Crisfield, Md., assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), and Sgt. Caleb Baker, from Stanardsville, Va., assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), perform routine flushing maintenance at a fueling station aboard Bonhomme Richard during Talisman Saber 17. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats and in its primary mission of launching Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the alliance.
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