230326-N-LK647-1270 ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 26, 2023) Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel Schindler, assigned to the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), signals to the pilot of an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to the “Tridents” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 9 (HSC 9) that chocks and chains are being attached to the aircraft as the ship conducts a vertical replenishment while underway as part of the Ford Carrier Strike Group, March 25, 2023. The Ford Carrier Strike Group is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX),
230326-N-LK647-1270 ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 26, 2023) Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel Schindler, assigned to the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), signals to the pilot of an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to the “Tridents” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 9 (HSC 9) that chocks and chains are being attached to the aircraft as the ship conducts a vertical replenishment while underway as part of the Ford Carrier Strike Group, March 25, 2023. The Ford Carrier Strike Group is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of the Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale.
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