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Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Manuel Tiscareno

Multinational EOD Training- RIMPAC 2018 B-Roll

Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet

July 19, 2018 | 1:40

180718-N-SB520-2102 OAHU, Hawaii (July 19, 2018) Sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 and multinational service members train at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, July 18-19. The exercises are intended to raise strategic coordination between nations to accomplish ordnance disposal assignments while deployed. Twenty-five nations, 46 ships, five submarines, and 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 2nd Class Manuel Tiscareno)