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Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Meranda Keller

People of RIMPAC 2018

Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet

July 7, 2018 | 1:55

180706-N-PA246-0001 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 6, 2018) Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Darienne Slack, assigned to Navy Reserve, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West, is frocked to Petty Officer 3rd Class during a promotion ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri. Slack, celebrated with her mother during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, July 6. Twenty-five nations, 46 ships, five submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 27 to Aug. 2 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security of the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2018 is the 26th exercise in the series that began in 1971 (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Meranda Keller)