Airman Adam Pond, an aviation boatswain's mate (fuel), directs a MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, assigned to the Vanguard of Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 14, to land on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9). Denver is part of the permanently forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is conducting a scheduled patrol in the western Pacific.