ARCTIC OCEAN (March 20, 2009) Sonar Technician (Submarine) 1st Class Jose Gutierrez, assistant range safety officer, watches daily operations while maintaining communication with the command hut at the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station during Ice Exercise 2009. ICEX is a two-week training exercise about 200 miles from the north coast of Alaska, near Prudhoe Bay. Two Los Angeles-class submarines, USS Helena (SSN 725) and USS Annapolis (SSN 760), will participate in the exercise with researchers from the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory and personnel from the Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini M. Jones.

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