Sgt. Joshua N. Thomas and Cpls. Forest M. Owen and Andrew Enriquez, from left to right, detach a rotor blade from a CH-53E Super Stallion aboard USS Makin Island here June 11. Thomas, a 24-year-old Amarillo, Texas, native, and Owen, a 21-year-old Fairbanks, Alaska, native, are helicopter mechanics. Enriquez, a 21-year-old Emerson, N.J., native, is a CH-53E Super Stallion crew chief. The Marines serve with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (Reinforced), the aviation combat element for the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The unit embarked the ship, as well as USS New Orleans and USS Pearl Harbor in San Diego Nov. 14, beginning a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific, Horn of Africa and Middle East regions.
| Date Taken: | 06.11.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 06.13.2012 22:56 |
| Photo ID: | 601946 |
| VIRIN: | 120611-M-YP701-034 |
| Resolution: | 2400x3600 |
| Size: | 750.5 KB |
| Location: | PACIFIC OCEAN |
| Web Views: | 55 |
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