A MH-60R Seahawk from flight 601 takes off from the Flight Deck of HMAS Toowoomba the East China Sea as part of Operation ARGOS.
Exercise Balikatan is underway. It is the largest annual bilateral exercise conducted between the Philippines and the US, and this year it includes Australia, Japan, France, Canada, and New Zealand. The Tagalog phrase “Balikatan” means “shoulder-to-shoulder.”
