(17 Oct 2022)
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Adriatic Sea, near the Italian coast - 17 October 2022
1. Various of fighter jets taxiing and taking off on main deck of USS Bush aircraft carrier
2. Mid of pilot in fighter jet
3. Pan of control equipment
4. Fighter jet landing on deck of USS Bush aircraft carrier
5. Various of crews on deck of carrier
6. Various of command deck
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Dave Pollard, USS Bush officer:
"During the Neptune Strike we will be providing opportunity for crews, our sailors, to interact with multiple nations, including Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Italy, just to name a few. There is about ten to twelve in total that we will be participating with. Today we have missions that are scheduled for over seven and a half hours, flying from the Adriatic up to Lithuania, into Romania, into Hungary, while we are simultaneously supporting operations in the Tyrrhenian Sea with (inaudible) Italian forces. So it is a great opportunity to, like I said, build our partnerships, gain interoperability by communicating and understanding how our friends work in this theater."
8. Various of hangar and maintenance works taking place
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rear Admiral Dennis Velez, commander of the USS Bush:
"I am not going to speculate on what (Russian) president (Vladimir) Putin will do or not do. But I will echo what our leaders have said across the alliance and in my country is that NATO it is, at the end of the day, it is a defensive alliance and we will defend every inch of NATO territory. And that's as basic as I can put it. That's what my, our president has said, our secretary of defense (has said). And we mean that, what we said, that we, you know, we're a defensive alliance and we'll defend NATO."
10. Various of deck and fighter taking off
STORYLINE:
NATO exercise, Neptune Strike, was underway in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday.
The exercise, taking place from the 14th-19th of October, involves more than 10 NATO allied countries, including the US, Italy, Romania, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Poland.
It is aimed at enhancing the interoperability and communication skills among allied commands for both sea and air forces in order to deter threats and defend NATO territory.
"During the Neptune Strike we will be providing opportunity for crews, our sailors, to interact with multiple nations," Captain Dave Pollard of the USS Bush told reports aboard the US Navy carrier on Monday.
The carrier was sailing in the Adriatic Sea as it participated in the exercise.
"It is a great opportunity to, like I said, build our partnerships, gain interoperability by communicating and understanding how our friends work in this theater," Pollard added.
AP video shot by: Giuseppe De Stefano
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