150808-N-KM939-250 SAIPAN HARBOR, Saipan (August 8, 2015) - Sailors wait for a crane to lower supplies from the flight deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) during disaster relief efforts in Saipan after Typhoon Soudelor made landfall. Ashland is assigned to the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group and is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications 3rd Class David A. Cox/Released)