EAST CHINA SEA (March 9, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), left, transits the East China Sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Takanami-class destroyer JS Sazanami (DD 113), foreground, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare (DD 106), center, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment as part of the Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of 3rd Fleet. N
EAST CHINA SEA (March 9, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), left, transits the East China Sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Takanami-class destroyer JS Sazanami (DD 113), foreground, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare (DD 106), center, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment 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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