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Seaman Happithor Jaranilla of Carson, Calif., serves students lunch at Barretto National High School during a community relations. Essex, is in Subic Bay in support of Exercise BALIKATAN 09. Essex has been invited by the Republic of the Philippines to participate in BK09, which is an annual combined, joint-bilateral exercise involving U.S. Military and Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel as well as subject matter experts from Philippine Civil Defense Agencies. BK09 is the 25th in the series of these exercises, directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and requested by the government of the Republic of the Philippines Essex, commanded by Capt. Brent Canady, is the lead ship of the only forward-deployed expeditionary strike group and serves as the flagship for CTF 76, the Navy's only forward-deployed amphibious force commander. Task Force 76 is headquartered at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, Japan, with a detachment in Sasebo, Japan.
| Date Taken: | 04.18.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 04.21.2009 05:55 |
| Photo ID: | 166585 |
| VIRIN: | 090418-N-9520G-277 |
| Resolution: | 1399x999 |
| Size: | 330.37 KB |
| Location: | USS ESSEX (LHD 2) |
| Web Views: | 120 |
| Downloads: | 12 |
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