U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Chamika McIntush directs an SA-330J Puma helicopter as it drops off supplies to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during an under way replenishment with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) in the Gulf of Thailand Feb. 25, 2011. Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group and was under way in the western Pacific Ocean.