SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 29, 2017) An MH-60R Seahawk helicopter from Maritime Helicopter Strike Squadron (HSM) 37 takes off from the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112). Michael Murphy 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. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years.

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