U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Brian Sherlock, a landing signalman enlisted, directs the first-ever landing of a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) in the Leyte Gulf near the Philippines Nov. 22, 2013, during Operation Damayan.
U.S. military forces were deployed to the Philippines to support humanitarian efforts in response to Typhoon Haiyan. (DoD photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Allen Onstott, U.S. Navy/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr