US Navy (USN) deck department Sailors, Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS COWPENS (CG 63), tend lines while retrieving a USN Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) from the Coral Sea after conducting small boat exercises. e COWPENS is accompanying the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) and other ships of the Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group (CSG), as part of Exercise TALISMAN SABER 2005. TALISMAN SABRE is an exercise jointly sponsored by the US Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Australian Defense Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the US 7th Fleet Commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters....

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[Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) deck department Sailors, Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS COWPENS (CG 63), tend lines while retrieving a USN Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) from the Coral Sea after conducting small boat exercises. The COWPENS is accompanying the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) and other ships of the Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group (CSG), as part of Exercise TALISMAN SABER 2005. TALISMAN SABRE is an exercise jointly sponsored by the US Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Australian Defense Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the US 7th Fleet Commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters. The exercise focuses on crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. USPACOM units and Australian forces will conduct land, sea and air training throughout the training area. More than 11,000 US and 6,000 Australian personnel will participate.

Base: USS Cowpens (CG 63)

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Bo J. Flannigan, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
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