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Caption:
Coral Sea (June 26, 2005) - Sailors from Helicopter Antisubmarine
Squadron One Four (HS-14) conducts a rotor head inspection on an SH-60F
Seahawk in the hangar bay aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Routine
maintenance is conducted to ensure optimum levels of mission readiness
and flight safety. Kitty Hawk is currently operating in the Coral Sea
off the coast of Australia's Queensland region as part of Exercise
Talisman Sabre 2005 Talisman Sabre is an exercise jointly sponsored by
the U.S. Pacific Command and Australian Defence Force Joint Operations
Command, and designed to train the U.S. Seventh 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. U.S. Pacific
Command units and Australian forces will conduct land, sea and air
training throughout the training area. More than 11,000 U.S. and 6,000
Australian personnel will participate. U.S. Navy photo by
Photographer's Mate Airman Recruit Ralph Zamora (RELEASED)
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