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Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Jimmie Crockett

Basketball Championship during RIMPAC 2018

Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet

June 28, 2018 | 0:41

180702-N-OS584-0001 PEARL HARBOR (July 2, 2018) Sailors assigned to guided-missile destroyers USS O’Kane (DDG 77), USS Sterett (DDG 104), USS Preble (DDG 88), and aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) participated in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC 2018) basketball tournament. The Preble team won with a final score of 54-43 in the championship game. Twenty-five nations, more than 45 ships and 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 video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jimmie Crockett/Released)