22 July 2009
Imagery from US Combat Camera Team
Mustin is participating in Talisman Saber 2009, a joint exercise between U.S. and the Australian Defense Force that includes participation from more than 20,000 U.S. and 10,000 Australian personnel. Mustin is one of seven Arleigh Burke-class destroyers assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 and operates out of Yokosuka, Japan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Reckard/Released).
Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Travis Page, from Moore Haven, Fla., a landing signalman enlisted (LSE) aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin DDG (89), signals to the pilot of an SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Warlords of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 51 as it prepares to take off during night air operations.
(Date taken: 14 July 2009)
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Chief Boatswain Mate Johan Zorilla, from New York assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), observes landing craft air cushion (LCAC) operations during the amphibious phase of Talisman Saber 2009 off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 load ordnance on an AV-8B Harrier in preparation for amphibious operations during Talisman Saber 2009 off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Two CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262 lift off from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to support amphibious operations as part of Talisman Saber 2009 off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Apprentice Cesar Salinas, from Los Angeles, Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Kaylyn Henderson, from Newkirk, Okla., and Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Aaron Gravatt, from Wilmington, Del., show their chocks and chains to the pilot of a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Seaman Nyja Allen, from New York assigned to Beachmaster Unit (BMU) 1, Detachment Western Pacific, directs the offload of U.S. Marines and vehicles from Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 21, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5 Detachment Western Pacific, during a mock amphibious assault. BMU-1, ACU-5 and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Seaman Nyja Allen, a native of New York assigned to Beachmaster Unit (BMU) 1, Detachment Western Pacific, directs Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 8, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, Detachment Western Pacific, as it transports U.S. Marines and vehicles ashore during a mock amphibious assault. BMU-1, ACU-5 and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Sailors assigned to the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9) remove the rotor blades of an AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter on the flight deck during a Talisman Saber 2009 training exercise.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Members of an Australian Army forward support battalion unit disembark from U.S. Navy Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 1634, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 1, during an amphibious landing exercise at Townsend Beach as part of exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Boatswain's Mate Kevin Harris, from Drew, Miss., communicates with the Combat Information Center (CIC) as a landing craft, air cushioned (LCAC) vehicle departs the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to disembark marines and cargo for an amphibious beach landing exercise during Talisman Saber 09.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) deployed to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) prepare to patrol in light armored vehicles during an exercise at Freshwater Bay supporting Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) deployed to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) prepare to patrol in light armored vehicles during an exercise at Freshwater Bay supporting Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) deployed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) move out on patrol during a training exercise at Freshwater Bay in support of Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 21, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, Det. Western Pacific, returns to Freshwater Bay from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to offload Marines and equipment in support of Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) deployed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), move out on patrol in light armored vehicles during an exercise at Freshwater Bay supporting Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) deployed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) disembark Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 21, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, Det. Western Pacific, during a training exercise at Freshwater Bay supporting Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Seaman Nyja Allen, from New York assigned to Beach Master Unit (BMU) 1, directs Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 21, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, Det. Western Pacific as it comes ashore at Freshwater Bay during a training exercise supporting Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 10, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, Det. Western Pacific, departs Freshwater Bay to return to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to embark Marines and equipment supporting Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 15 July 2009)
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Electrician's Mate Fireman Ekkaphone Sayarath coils copper wire inside a brine pump while performing a pump rewind aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
(Date taken: 17 July 2009)
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A landing craft air cushion prepares to enter the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9) during a Talisman Saber 2009 training exercise.
(Date taken: 17 July 2009)
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Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Louis M. Peters guides a landing craft air cushion out of the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9) during a Talisman Saber 2009 training exercise.
(Date taken: 17 July 2009)
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Rear Adm. Richard B. Landolt passes through rainbow sideboys on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9).
(Date taken: 17 July 2009)
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Quartermaster 3rd Class Chris Emhoolah plots the ship's course on the navigational bridge aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
(Date taken: 17 July 2009)
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An AV-8B Harrier lands aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during a Talisman Saber 2009 exercise.
(Date taken: 17 July 2009)
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Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Travell Young gives orders to the capstan operator aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) during a replenishment at-sea with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197).
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the Island Knights of Helicopter Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 transports cargo from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) during a replenishment at-sea.
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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The Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE 6) is underway with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin DDG (89) during an underway replenishment.
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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Aviation Boatswains Mate Airman Apprentice Michael Gonzales, from San Diego assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), pulls a line measuring the distance from Essex and the Royal Australian Navy Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment vessel HMAS Success (OR 304) during a replenishment at sea as part of Talisman Saber 2009 off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) tend a phone-and-distance line from the ship's starboard catwalk during a refueling at sea with the Royal Australian Navy tanker HMAS Success (OR-304).
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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The Royal Australian Navy refueling tanker HMAS Success (OR-304), center, conducts a refueling at sea with the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), top, and the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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Sailors assigned to the Supply department of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) hook cargo nets together for transport back to the dry cargo-ammunition ship USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) during a replenishment at-sea.
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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Royal Australian Navy guided-missile frigate HMAS Darwin (FFG 04) conducts an underway replenishment with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart
(T-AKE 6).
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Christopher Wilson, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., steadies the phone and distance line aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during an underway replenishment with the Australian underway replenishment tanker HMAS Success (OR 304) and the dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) during exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 18 July 2009)
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An MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, assigned to the Air Combat Element of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), prepares to lift an M777 105-mm lightweight Howitzer as a part of exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 19 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), attach an M777 105-mm lightweight Howitzer for lift by an MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter during exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 19 July 2009)
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An MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, assigned to the Air Combat Element of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) lifts an M777 105-mm lightweight Howitzer as a part of exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 19 July 2009)
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SHOALWATER BAY TRAINING AREA, QUEENSLAND, Australia. (July 20, 2009) - Australian Federal Police evacuate the Urban Operations Training Facility during Exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 19 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), rush toward an M777 105-mm lightweight Howitzer for rig it for lift by an MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, assigned to the Air Combat Element of the 31st MEU, as a part of exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 19 July 2009)
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An MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, assigned to the Air Combat Element of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) lifts an M777 105mm lightweight Howitzer as a part of exercise Talisman Saber 2009.
(Date taken: 19 July 2009)
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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) prepare to board a CH-53E "Sea Stallion" helicopter, assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262, as it lands on the beach during an artillery airlift exercise. The 31st MEU and HMM-262 are embarked aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).
