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Vice Adm. Mark Hammond, left, chief of navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Andrea Gleason, right, Australian consul-general to Honolulu, participate in a bilateral engagement with Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, during a Malabar navies’ leadership multilateral engagement in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Sept. 17, 2023. The four navies, all participants of the Malabar exercise, met prior to the U.S.-led International Seapower Symposium to reinforce security through partnership in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jonathan B. Trejo)