On any given day, in your Navy, our team of more than 600,000 professional Sailors and civilians are working together around the globe to perform our mission: deter aggression and, if deterrence fails, win our Nation’s wars. It is not possible to share every aspect of this global team but, through this blog, we offer you a glimpse of what these men and women do on a daily basis.
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Sailors assigned to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group and citizens of the Philippines work together to unload supplies of an MV-22 Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262.
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A Philippine civilian hands a bag of food to Lt. Ryan Salcido, from Temple City, Calif., center, to be delivered to local villages during Operation Damayan.
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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alisha White, left, assigned to USS Mustin (DDG 89) and Naval Aircrewman Tactical Helicopter 2nd Class Chris Miller, right, speak with citizens affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan while delivering relief supplies.
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Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus holds an all-hands call with Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) in Souda Bay, Greece.
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Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195) in the Mediterranean Sea.
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The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) transits the South China Sea.
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An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter transports supplies from USNS Kanawa (T-AO 196) during a replenishment at sea with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the Atlantic Ocean.
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