7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 27, 2017) Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Runsiya Richards (front), from Tacoma, Washington, and Seaman Thomas Bade, from St. Louis, Michigan, signal to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, as it brings cargo from Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). Wayne E. Meyer is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as pa
7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 27, 2017) Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Runsiya Richards (front), from Tacoma, Washington, and Seaman Thomas Bade, from St. Louis, Michigan, signal to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, as it brings cargo from Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). 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 3rd Fleet command and control functions into the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have routinely patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific for more than 70 years.
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