Sailors and Marines aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) look out through the starboard elevator as Essex receives fuel from the fleet replenishment oiler U.S. Naval Ship Walter S. Diehl (T-AO 193). Essex is the lead ship of the only forward-deployed U.S. Expeditionary Strike Group and serves as the flagship for Combined Task Force 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. (U.S. Navy photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Gabriel S. Weber)
| Date Taken: | 05.09.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 04.29.2012 07:03 |
| Photo ID: | 87553 |
| VIRIN: | 080509-N-5253W-016 |
| Resolution: | 3008x2000 |
| Size: | 4.39 MB |
| Location: | USS ESSEX (LHD 2), TH |
| Web Views: | 77 |
| Downloads: | 15 |
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