Image of the Day: Simulated Boarding of USNS Spearhead

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Simulated Boarding of USNS Spearhead

The US Navy’s Personnel assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group 10 and Cameroonian Rapid Intervention Battalion conduct a simulated boarding of the joint high-speed vessel USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) during exercise Obangame Express 2014.

 

Obangame Express, now in its fourth year, is designed to improve tactical expertise and cooperation among West and Central African nations in order to enhance those maritime forces’ collective ability to deter illicit activity and maritime threats in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Naval Today Staff, April 22, 2014;
Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeff Atherton