#FreeAndOpenIndoPacific

Adm. Stephen Koehler relieved Adm. Samuel Paparo and assumed command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet change of command ceremony.🤝

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#FreeAndOpenIndoPacific #INDOPACOM #pacificfleet

#TeamWork

🇺🇸 USS Ralph Johnson Conducts Training Evolution⚓

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) sails in formation with USS America (LHA 6), the Kongo-class destroyer JS Kongo (DDG-173), USS Howard (DDG 83) and USS Dewey (DDG 105).

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#USSSomerset sails in formation alongside IN during #TigerTRIUMPH24 , a #JointForce amphibious exercise strengthening combined #Readiness to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific .

📍 #BayOfBengal

📸 MC2 Evan Diaz

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Indian and U.S. combined armed forces began Exercise Tiger TRIUMPH 2024 with the arrival of #USNavy amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25), March 18, and an opening ceremony March 19.

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#TigerTRIUMPH #NavyPartnerships

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#BlueGreenTeam in action!

U.S. Navy Sailors transport and secure helicopter blade storage containers in the hangar bay aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

#USNavy | #ForgedByTheSea

Haze gray and underway!

Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), participate in a security reaction force course, March 3, 2024.

#AlwaysReady | #US7thFleet

Divers assigned to Mobile Dive and Salvage Unit ONE (MDSU ONE), the Royal Thai Navy and the Republic of Korea Navy participate in an underwater cutting demonstration as part of Cobra Gold in Thailand, March 2.
#InternationalByDesign | #AlliesandPartners

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A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, attached to the 5th Bomb Wing, and aircraft attached to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11, fly in formation over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

#USNavy | #ForgedByTheSea

The Arleigh-Burke guided missile class destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) conducted a routine south-to-north Taiwan Strait transit on March 5, 2024.

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) returned to its forward-deployed location of Yokosuka, Japan, to rejoin Commander, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 March 2nd, 2024.

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ICYMI:

U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia Sector Guam, U.S. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HSC-25) teamed up recently to conduct a critical medical evacuation of a Filipino mariner northwest of Guam.

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Sailors assigned to USS Daniel Inouye transit the Luzon Strait. USINDOPACOM forces perform operations in and around critical sea passages and trade thoroughfares to deter threats that create regional instability and impinge on the free flow of goods, people, and ideas.

Sailors assigned to USS Kidd (DDG 100) transit through the Luzon Strait. USINDOPACOM forces perform operations in and around critical sea passages and trade thoroughfares to deter threats that create regional instability and impinge on the free flow of goods, people, and ideas.

VP 8 conducts flight operations in the vicinity of the Miyako Strait. USINDOPACOM forces perform operations in and around critical sea passages and trade thoroughfares to deter threats that create regional instability and impinge on the free flow of goods, people, and ideas.