Pony Express..Navy Style---plus pics of the day June 21, 2010.

U.S. Navy shooters launch a C-2A Greyhound aircraft assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 from aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) June 11, 2010, while conducting training operations in the Atlantic Ocean. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel S. Moore, U.S. Navy/Released)

The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), rear, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Osumi-Class amphibious assault ship JDS Kunisaki (LST 4003), center, and two Japanese landing craft, air cushion hovercraft steam through the South China Sea during a photo exercise June 14, 2010. Mercy is deployed as part of Pacific Partnership 2010, the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet humanitarian and civic assistance endeavors to strengthen regional partnerships. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jon Husman, U.S. Navy/Released)

U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. David Carter rappels from an HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 14 June 16, 2010, during helicopter rope suspension training on the flight deck of USS George Washington (CVN 73). Carter is from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5. George Washington is under way in the Pacific Ocean in support of security operations. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas, U.S. Navy/Released)

Two CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters from USS Peleliu (LHA 5) fly off the coast of Dili, Timor-Leste, June 20, 2010. Sailors from the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group and Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are participating in Marine Exercise 2010, a multilateral exercise promoting cooperation through civic action programs and training with the Timor-Leste and Australian militaries. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell, U.S. Navy)