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Caption:
At sea aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Nov. 16, 2002 -- USS Curtis Wilbur
(DDG 54) participates in Exercise Keen Sword 03 off the coast of
Southern Japan. Keen Sword 2003 is the seventh in a series of
regularly scheduled joint/bilateral field training exercise since 1986
involving the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and United
States military. The purpose of Keen Sword is to train and
evaluate wartime functions and bilateral cooperation procedures against
the backdrop of a regional contingency scenario that has direct and
immediate consequences to the U.S. and Japan. U.S. Navy photo
by
Photographer's Mate 1st Class Ted Banks. (RELEASED)
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