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    An overhead view of a naval vessel deck showing sailors conducting a replenishment-at-sea (RAS) or line-handling operation. Personnel wearing safety gear including hard hats in blue and green colors and orange life vests are managing a thick braided rope/line along the ship's deck. The open ocean is visible alongside the ship's hull, indicating the vessel is underway.

    USS CHANCELLORSVILLE

    10.20.2008

    Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Scott    

    U.S. Navy           

    Sailors pull in line on board the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville while conducting a replenishment at sea with the fast combat support ship USNS Bridge. The Indian navy ship INS Godavari also conducted a RAS with Bridge. Chancellorsville and the rest of the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group are on a routine deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility. Operating in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, the U.S. 7th Fleet is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets covering 52 million square miles, with approximately 50 ships, 120 aircraft and 20,000 Sailors and Marines assigned at any given time.

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    Date Taken: 10.20.2008
    Date Posted: 08.24.2011 11:24
    Photo ID: 123666
    VIRIN: 081020-N-1635S-005
    Resolution: 2592x3872
    Size: 1.39 MB
    Location: USS CHANCELLORSVILLE

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