Sailors hold up chocks and chains they've just removed from an SH-60K helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Patrol Squadron 211 (HPS 211) of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, about to take off form the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46). Tortuga is part of the permanently forward-deployed Essex Expeditionary Strike Group, which is participating with the JMSDF in Keen Sword 2011, through Dec. 10. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Richard Doolin
