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U.S. Navy Ens. Brent Zito explains how to check the ship’s course to Republic of Korea Naval Academy midshipmen in the pilot house aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). Nearly 200 Republic of Korea Naval Academy midshipmen toured the Seventh Fleet’s command-and-control ship during a recent port visit in Chinhae.
Photo by PH1 Michael R. McCormick, USN |
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The former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), has been elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a think tank in Alexandria, Virginia. IDA provides analyses and advice to the U.S. Government on national security issues. Here Adm. Blair receives the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, awarded by the Emperor of Japan and presented by Minister of State for Defense Gen Nakatani, shortly before leaving the Pacific Command and retiring.
Photo by PH2(AW/SW) Clint Beaird, USN |
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U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Steve Saks, a C-130 aircraft co-pilot from the 36th Airlift Squadron, explains how the gauges of his aircraft work to a Japanese visitor during the August 2003 Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The two-day festival celebrates the friendship between the U.S. military community and host country Japan.
Photo by MSgt. Val Gempis, USAF |
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The Russian Navy Commanding Officer of Division of Surface Ships, Capt. 1st Rank Valeriy Vasilievich Tereokhin, greets the USS Lassen (DDG 82) Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Hugh Wetherald, before a farewell ceremony, as USS Lassen and USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) prepare to depart port Vladivostok. The U.S. Navy ships were on a goodwill visit to Russia in July 2003.
Photo by PH2 Inez Lawson, USN |
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