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A sailor looks out the open doorway of an airborne helicopter as two fellow sailors attach a hook to it.

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Navy personnel attach a cargo load to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter during vertical replenishment training aboard the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney in the Mediterranean Sea, May 16, 2026.

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