170320-N-FT178-013 7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 20, 2017) Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Dakota Anders, from Hartselle, Alabama, passes a message using an X5J telephone during an engineering training drill aboard Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57). Lake Champlain 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 the 3rd Fleet in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled

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170320-N-FT178-013 7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 20, 2017) Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Dakota Anders, from Hartselle, Alabama, passes a message using an X5J telephone during an engineering training drill aboard Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57). Lake Champlain 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 the 3rd Fleet in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan K. Serpico/Released)

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