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Approximately 400 US Sailors from USS O'Bannon (DD-987) and a P-3C detachment based out of NAS Sigonella, Italy, participated in an annual exercise with the Israeli and Turkish navies in mid January The exercise, named Reliant Mermaid, is the seventh combined search and rescue exercise and took place in international waters off the Israeli coast. The objective was to practice coordinated emergency search and rescue procedures. By building familiarization with each other's capabilities and working together, elements of the three naval forces, which regularly operate in the Mediterranean Sea, enhanced their abilities to provide humanitarian aid and improved their responses to actual maritime emergencies.
Photo By Paul Farley
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