Keywords: US Navy 050519-N-5781F-087 An air crewman watches cargo being lifted by an MH-60S Knighthawk during a vertical replenishment at sea.jpg en Pacific Ocean May 19 2005 - An air crewman assigned to Helicopter Composite Squadron Five HC-5 watches cargo being lifted by an MH-60S Knighthawk during a vertical replenishment at sea VERTREP between the Military Sealift Command MSC ammunition ship USNS Flint T-AE 32 and the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk CV 63 VERTREPs are a quick way of transferring cargo and munitions while ships are at sea The Kitty Hawk is currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility AOR demonstrating power projection and sea control as the U S Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier operating from Yokosuka Japan U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Bo Flannigan RELEASED 2005-05-19 050519-N-5781F-087 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 24489 U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Bo Flannigan PD-USGov-Military-Navy Vertical replenishment Aboard USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 |