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An SH-60B Seahawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 42, assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf, in background, lifts pallets off of the fantail of the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie during a vertical replenishment in the Indian Ocean, Dec. 3, 2008.

INDIAN OCEAN

An SH-60B Seahawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 42, assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf, in background, lifts pallets off of the fantail of the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie during a vertical replenishment in the Indian Ocean, Dec. 3, 2008.

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