Sailors and Marines scanning the sea from the deck of the USS America this week watched half a dozen or more whales breach near the amphibious assault ship and slap the water with fins and tails.
Flexing its military muscle in the Indo-Pacific, the United States has sent one of its warships, USS America (LHA 6), to Manila for a five-day port visit that came at the heels of shows of force of superpowers in the region.
The USS America “detected, tracked and engaged a target” with an RIM-116 rolling airframe missile this week in the Philippine Sea, an exercise the Navy says was aimed at keeping the amphibious assault ship’s crew ready for warfighting.