Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.19.2020
OKINAWA, Japan (Sept. 19, 2020) Landing Craft, Air Cushion 10, assigned to Naval Beach Unit 7, currently attached to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42), conducts amphibious operations in waters off Blue Beach. Germantown, part of Expeditionary Strike Group Seven (ESG 7), along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.19.2020
OKINAWA, Japan (Sept. 19, 2020) Landing Craft, Air Cushion 9, assigned to Naval Beach Unit 7, currently attached to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42), sits off-cushion on Blue Beach during amphibious operations. Germantown, part of Expeditionary Strike Group Seven (ESG 7), along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.19.2020
OKINAWA, Japan (Sept. 19, 2020) Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Juan Paulo Capati, left, from Vallejo, Calif., with Naval Beach Unit (NBU) 7, uses signal flags as a ramp marshal, while Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Patrick Vowell, from Martin, Tenn., also with NBU 7, performs duties as senior ramp marshal as Landing Craft, Air Cushion 9, assigned to NBU 7, currently attached to the......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.13.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 13, 2020) Sailors place a heat shield under the exhaust from a rotor of an MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron Reinforced (VMM) 262 on the flight deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Germantown, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group assigned to Amphibious Squadron 11, along with the 31st Marine......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.13.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 13, 2020) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Steven Shoemate, from Lansing, Kan., shoots a .50-caliber machine gun on the fo’c’sle during a live-fire exercise aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Germantown, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group assigned to Amphibious Squadron 11, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.13.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 13, 2020) Gas exits the barrel of a .50-caliber machine gun on the fo’c’sle during a live-fire exercise aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Germantown, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group assigned to Amphibious Squadron 11, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility to......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.13.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 13, 2020) Machine Gunner Sgt. Preston Yeatman, with Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), from Providence, R.I., left, assists Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Alex Hernandez, from Garland, Texas, as he changes the barrel of a .50-caliber machine gun after shooting it on the fo’c’sle during a live-fire......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino | USS Germantown (LSD 42) | 09.13.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 13, 2020) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Juan Perez, from Arlington, Texas, loads ammunition into a .50-caliber machine gun on the fo’c’sle during a live-fire exercise aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Germantown, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group assigned to Amphibious Squadron 11, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is......
