Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Coltin Behrendt, from Dunlap, Iowa, launches a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm helicopter, assigned to the Columbian ship ARC Almirante Padilla, on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu. Peleliu will participate in exercise Rim of the Pacific, a large multinational Naval exercise, as the command ship for the expeditionary strike group and is scheduled to conduct a follow-on deployment to the 7th fleet area of responsibility.