PACIFIC OCEAN (July 13, 2022) Royal Australian Navy Able Seaman Samantha Ratcliffe (center) from Royal Australian Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMAS Supply (A 195), fires a distance line to Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training op
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 13, 2022) Royal Australian Navy Able Seaman Samantha Ratcliffe (center) from Royal Australian Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMAS Supply (A 195), fires a distance line to Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Photo by Royal Australian Navy Leading Seaman Ernesto Sanchez)
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