Caption:
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 18, 2009) -- Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Nick
Maldonado, right, watches the underway replenishment team pass the
phone and distance line from the guided-missile frigate USS Kauffman
(FFG 59) to the Colombian replenishment ship ARC Buenaventura (BM 162).
Kauffman is on a six-month deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of
responsibility supporting the U.S. Southern Command exercise Southern
Seas 2009, part of the Partnerships of the Americas strategy. U.S.
Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brandon
Shelander (RELEASED)
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