PHILIPPINE SEA (Feb. 8, 2024) Sailors aboard the forward-deployed amphibious landing dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) attach pallets to a MH-60S Sea Hawk Helicopter from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 during a vertical replenishment. Green Bay, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group, along with the 31st MEU, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy's largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matthew Bakerian)