Caption:
EAST CHINA SEA (Nov. 19, 2008) -- The guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh
(CG 67) leads a formation of U.S. Navy and Japanese Maritime
Self-Defense Force ships assigned to the George Washington Carrier
Strike Group and the Essex Expeditionary Strike Group during the
bilateral exercise ANNUALEX. ANNUALEX is a yearly exercise with the
U.S. Navy and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force to improve
working relations between the two navies. U.S. Navy Photo by Chief
Mass Communication Specialist Ty Swartz (RELEASED)
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