Keywords: People's Liberation Army (Navy), RIMPAC 2014 140715-N-WX378-004.jpg en Seaman Louken Ploviose assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper DDG 70 pulls a mooring line over a bollard as the People's Liberation Army Navy hospital ship Peace Ark T-AH 866 departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific RIMPAC Exercise 2014 Twenty-two nations 49 ships six submarines more than 200 aircraft and 25 000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 26 to Aug 1 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California The world's largest international maritime exercise RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971 U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan M Ilyankoff/Released 2014-07-15 Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Ilyankoff https //www dvidshub net/image/1452715 140715-N-WX378-004 2014-07-17 22 20 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM HI US PD-USGov-Military-Navy Foreign warships at Pearl Harbor USS Hopper DDG-70 RIMPAC 2014 Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |