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Coral Sea (June 24, 2005) - Quartermaster 2nd Class Nicholas Pavlow consults an azimuth circle aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) to find bearing and range before conducting a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment ship USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200). Cowpens is currently operating in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia's Queensland region as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2005. Talisman Sabre is an exercise jointly sponsored by the U.S. Pacific Command and Australian Defence Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the U.S. Seventh Fleet commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters. The exercise focuses on crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. U.S. Pacific Command units and Australian forces will conduct land, sea and air training throughout the training area. More than 11,000 U.S. and 6,000 Australian personnel will participate. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Bo J. Flannigan (RELEASED)