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Video by Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche conducts a parts transfer with Navy helicopter

U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area

July 22, 2014 | 0:49

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) conducts a parts transfer with a Navy H-60 helicopter crew off the Coast of Hawaii, July 22, 2014, during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and six submarines, about 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel participated in RIMPAC from June 26 to August 1, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971.