An AS332 Super Puma helicopter delivers a pallet of
An AS332 Super Puma helicopter delivers a pallet of supplies onto the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a replenishment. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Am... More
Flight deck personnel assigned to the forward-deployed
Flight deck personnel assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex watch a CH-53E Sea Stallion take off. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is participa... More
USS Essex action, US Navy Photogrpah
Aviation boatswain's mates clean wheel stop combing aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is underway in the weste... More
USS Essex, US Navy Photogrpah
Petty Officer 3rd Class Ricky Williams fires an M-16 rifle during qualification training on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex... More
A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine
A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262, takes off from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deploye... More
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and... More
Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious
Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex prepare to launch helicopters loaded with humanitarian assistance supplies. USS Essex is off the coast of Japan providing humanitarian ... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit run on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Grou... More
Marines position humanitarian assistance supplies on
Marines position humanitarian assistance supplies on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating off the coas... More
Sailors prepare an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned
Sailors prepare an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 for take-off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibi... More
A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian
A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian assistance supplies takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operat... More
Seaman Nicholas D. Done maintains an aircraft status
Seaman Nicholas D. Done maintains an aircraft status board aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is on patrol in t... More
Line handlers secure the forward-deployed amphibious
Line handlers secure the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex to a pier at White Beach Naval Facility.
Lt. Scott Purcell supervises sea and anchor detail
Lt. Scott Purcell supervises sea and anchor detail from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is underway in the wester... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis L. Trotter, aviation
Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis L. Trotter, aviation boatswain's mate (handling), tracks pallets delivered by vertical replenishment to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a replenishme... More
Operations Specialist 3rd Class Peterjohn N. Delacruz
Operations Specialist 3rd Class Peterjohn N. Delacruz monitors a radar console in the combat information center of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a detect-to-engage exercise. Esse... More
Flight deck personnel assigned to the forward-deployed
Flight deck personnel assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex reposition AV-8B Harrier aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 214. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Gro... More
USS Essex action, US Navy Photogrpah
Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin Bell, quartermaster, plots a course in the chart room of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group ... More
USS Essex, US Navy Photogrpah
Lance Cpl. Tristan J. Hunter, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, watches over Marine equipment in the hangar bay of the forward deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) before a training ... More
Airman Jeremy J. New gives the OK signal as an AV-8B
Airman Jeremy J. New gives the OK signal as an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex... More
Petty Officer 1st Class Justin L. McCray, aviation
Petty Officer 1st Class Justin L. McCray, aviation ordnanceman, replaces the barrel of a M-240B machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is pa... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit participate in physical training aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group on patrol... More
A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine
A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262, takes off from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deploye... More
A CH-53E Sea Stallion assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter
A CH-53E Sea Stallion assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 prepares to land aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is c... More
USS Essex action, US Navy Photogrpah
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 prepares to land aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready ... More
An SA-330J Puma helicopter moves cargo from the Military
An SA-330J Puma helicopter moves cargo from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a vertical replenishment. The Essex Am... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin J. Satorius, machinist's
Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin J. Satorius, machinist's mate, conducts a bottom sediment and water test on diesel fuel marine in the oil lab aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex i... More
CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine
CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 prepare to take off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex to deliver humanitarian assistance supplies. Ess... More
Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious
Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex watch as the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon connects to a fuel probe as part of an annual certification. Essex is part of the ... More
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 prepares to land aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready ... More
Operations Specialist Seaman Recruit Alexander D. Rumpf
Operations Specialist Seaman Recruit Alexander D. Rumpf monitors a radar console in the combat information center of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a detect-to-engage exercise. Es... More
Airman Recruit Jeremy J. New, aviation boatswain's
Airman Recruit Jeremy J. New, aviation boatswain's mate (handling), assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex, stows tie-down chains after removing them from a CH-46E Sea Knight. Essex ... More
Marine aviation ordnancemen move away from a AV-8B
Marine aviation ordnancemen move away from a AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft after arming a GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided bomb on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is ... More
Marines load humanitarian assistance supplies into
Marines load humanitarian assistance supplies into a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary... More
USS Essex, US Navy Photogrpah
Lance Cpl. Dylan Beorth, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, reassembles an M-240 machine gun aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is part of the forward-depl... More
Airman Heath R. Johnson removes a grounding gear from
Airman Heath R. Johnson removes a grounding gear from an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Ess... More
A Marine assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary
A Marine assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit fast ropes onto the port aircraft elevator of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group on... More
An SA-330J Puma helicopter places supplies on the flight
An SA-330J Puma helicopter places supplies on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a vertical replenishment with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richar... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit pilot an amphibious assault vehicle into the well deck of the forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver.
Fire Controlman 2nd Class Stephen M. Woodall monitors
Fire Controlman 2nd Class Stephen M. Woodall monitors a radar console in the combat information center of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a detect-to-engage exercise. Essex is part... More
Petty Officer 1st Class Justin L. McCray, aviation
Petty Officer 1st Class Justin L. McCray, aviation ordnanceman (right), instructs Seaman Eric C. Bell, aviation ordnance airman, on the correct use of a M-240B machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the... More
Petty Officer 1st Class Darrio L. Davis watches an
Petty Officer 1st Class Darrio L. Davis watches an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 land aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forw... More
A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, assigned to Marine
A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262, takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex to deliver humanitarian and disaster relief supplies. E... More
Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuel) 1st Class Joseph C.
Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuel) 1st Class Joseph C. Determan carries a fuel hose across the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Gr... More
Marines and sailors transport GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided
Marines and sailors transport GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs across the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready ... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric C. Haymes, hospital corpsman,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric C. Haymes, hospital corpsman, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast ropes onto the port aircraft elevator of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. E... More
The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler
The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Rappahannock extends its fuel probes to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a replenishment at sea. Essex is part of the Ess... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward P. Oyola cleans an M-240B
Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward P. Oyola cleans an M-240B machine gun in the armory of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group a... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit run on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Grou... More
Airman Nicole M. Calvery, aviation ordnanceman, fires
Airman Nicole M. Calvery, aviation ordnanceman, fires a M-240B machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex ... More
Line handlers secure the forward-deployed amphibious
Line handlers secure the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex to a pier at White Beach Naval Facility.
Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Mark
Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Mark Anthony R. Padrigo, assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex, gives the signals as an AV-8B Harrier assigned to Marine Attack Squadr... More
Lance Cpl. Shaun W. Deibert assigned to Marine Attack
Lance Cpl. Shaun W. Deibert assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 cleans the canopy of an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part... More
Airman Nicole M. Calvery, aviation ordnanceman, loads
Airman Nicole M. Calvery, aviation ordnanceman, loads ammunition into an M-240B machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forwar... More
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex gets underway from Sepangar, Malaysia, to support earthquake and tsunami relief operations in Japan as directed.
Cpl. Lauren L. Colantropo, left, performs drill movements
Cpl. Lauren L. Colantropo, left, performs drill movements while being evaluated by Sgt. Chad J. Beard in the hangar bay of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-de... More
Sailors and Marines stand in formation during an award
Sailors and Marines stand in formation during an award ceremony aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group on patrol in the western Pacific Ocean.
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex gets underway from Sepangar, Malaysia, to support earthquake and tsunami relief operations in Japan as directed.
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex extends a fuel probe to the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon as part of an annual certification. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group a... More
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack
An AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 lands on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is ... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit pilot an amphibious assault vehicle towards the well deck of the forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver, not pictured.
A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian
A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian assistance supplies takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operat... More
Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious
Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex prepare for a detect-to-engage scenario in the ship's combat information center. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group and ... More