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Rimpac's Got Impact

July 27, 2022 |DOD News

The 2022 Rim of the Pacific exercise — Rimpac, for short — is underway in and around Hawaii and Southern California. 

Aircraft parked on the deck of a ship that is traveling through waters.
Aircraft parked on the deck of a ship that is traveling through waters.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln pulls into Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 28, 2022, during Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest international maritime exercise.
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Rimpac is the world's largest international maritime exercise, with more than two dozen nations participating to strengthen their collective forces and promote a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Rimpac by the Numbers
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26  Nations
25,000+  Personnel
38  Surface Ships
4  Submarines
170+  Aircraft
30+  Unmanned Systems

This year's theme is "Capable, Adaptive, Partners," and participants are exercising a wide range of capabilities, demonstrating the flexibility of maritime forces.

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U.S. and South Korean troops jump into a body of water from an airborne helicopter.
A missile is launched from a ship at sea.
Three service members work to flip an inflatable boat on water.
A sailor in bright yellow gives hand signals to the pilot of an aircraft in a deck.
U.S. and Indonesian marines crouch and kneel by a gate outside a building.
A Marine stands in a field surrounded holding a phone receive and surrounded by numerous antennae.
Sailors use ropes to pull a fuel hose.
Two Marines run while holding weapons.
A Marine climbs on a flipped inflatable boat as two others swim beside the boat; another inflatable boat with two people on board can be seen in the background.
U.S., Mexican, Australian and Canadian naval divers swim in a body of water near a sunken ship.
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2022 marks the 28th edition of Rimpac, a biennial event first conducted in 1971. 

Spotlight: Focus on Indo-Pacific Spotlight: Focus on Indo-Pacific: https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Focus-on-Indo-Pacific/

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