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Ties hailed as US strike group docks

The United Stattes' Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is seen at the Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri until Saturday. The group is on an 11-month patrol mission with the US Navy's 7th Fleet as part of operations that began in November. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

CHON BURI: The US Navy is prepared to go anywhere in the "free and open Indo-Pacific", said a spokesman for a carrier strike group visiting Thailand this week.

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is on an 11-month patrol mission in the US 7th Fleet area of operations that began last November. It has just finished taking part in drills with Japan and South Korea, said Lt Ben Bushong, spokesman for the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. It has also taken part in exercises with the Philippines.

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