US Navy, JMSDF Complete Annual Bilateral Training Exercise MultiSail 17

An MH-60R Sea Hawk from the “Blue Hawks” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78 flies near the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare (DD 106) and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), not pictured, Mar. 8, 2017. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of U.S. 3rd Fleet. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years.

170308-N-BL637-024.JPG Photo By: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean M. Castellano

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U.S. Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Complete Annual Bilateral Training Exercise MultiSail 17

Mar 10, 2017

EAST CHINA SEA - An MH-60R Sea Hawk from the “Blue Hawks” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78 flies near the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare (DD 106) and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), not pictured, Mar. 8, 2017. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of U.S. 3rd Fleet. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years.

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