170714-N-NB544-061 CORAL SEA (July 14, 2017) Mass

170714-N-NB544-061
CORAL SEA (July 14, 2017) Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William Sykes, from Panama City, Fla., uses a sound-powered phone to communicate with a repair locker during a damage control drill aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) during Talisman Saber 2017. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined U.S., Australia and New Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats and in its primary mission of launching Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a U.S.-Australian bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australian alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom/Released)