7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 27, 2017) Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Runsiya Richards, from Tacoma, Washington, signals to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, as it brings cargo from Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). Wayne E. Meyer 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
7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 27, 2017) Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Runsiya Richards, from Tacoma, Washington, signals to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, as it brings cargo from Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). Wayne E. Meyer 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 3rd Fleet command and control functions into the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have routinely patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific for more than 70 years.
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