CORAL SEA (July 10, 2017) Quartermaster 3rd Class Mika Rosario from Dededo, Guam, holds a status board to give navigation information to the bridge crew aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) as it approaches the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), left, the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194), middle, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), right, for a replenishment-at-sea during Talisman Saber 17. Ashland, part of a combined Zealand expeditionary strike gr
CORAL SEA (July 10, 2017) Quartermaster 3rd Class Mika Rosario from Dededo, Guam, holds a status board to give navigation information to the bridge crew aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) as it approaches the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), left, the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194), middle, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), right, for a replenishment-at-sea during Talisman Saber 17. Ashland, 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 biennial bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the alliance.
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