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Leading Seaman Ben Abbott, assigned to Australian Clearance Diving Team 1, boards the guided-missile cruiser USS Valley Forge, during a Vehicle Board Search and Seizure exercise as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific, July 10, 2006. Eight nations participate in RIMPAC, the world's largest biennial maritime exercise off the coast of Hawaii.

Rim of the Pacific

Leading Seaman Ben Abbott, assigned to Australian Clearance Diving Team 1, boards the guided-missile cruiser USS Valley Forge, during a Vehicle Board Search and Seizure exercise as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific, July 10, 2006. Eight nations participate in RIMPAC, the world's largest biennial maritime exercise off the coast of Hawaii.

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