Cmdr. Yin Dang, a chaplain, speaks to Sailors assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Essex before a community service project at Barretto National High School. During the project, Essex Sailors performed repair work, played educational games with the children and delivered books donated by the freshmen class at E.J. King High School at Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan. Essex is participating in Balikatan 2009, an annual combined, joint-bilateral exercise involving U.S. military and armed forces of the Philippines personnel as well as subject matter experts from Philippine Civil Defense Agencies.
Gregory Johnson
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