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Caption:
At sea aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Nov. 19, 2002 -- USS Curtis Wilbur
(DDG 54) conducts operations with the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) battle
group during Exercise Keen Sword 2003 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 3rd Class Lindsay R. Minturn.
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