An AS 332 Super Puma takes off from the flight deck of the Dry Cargo/Ammunition Ship USNS Richard E. Byrd during a vertical replenishment. Byrd performed the VERTREP with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Fast Combat Support Ship USNS Bridge. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is 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.
| Date Taken: | 11.08.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 10.06.2011 07:49 |
| Photo ID: | 127159 |
| VIRIN: | 081108-N-4005H-032 |
| Resolution: | 2592x3872 |
| Size: | 1.66 MB |
| Location: | USPACOM, AT SEA |
| Web Views: | 74 |
| Downloads: | 9 |
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