USS Carney entering the Black Sea. Cem Devrim Yaylalı Photo used with permission
ISTANBUL — A pair of U.S. Navy ships entered the Black Sea on Friday and Saturday just as Sea Breeze 2019, the 19th iteration of the multinational land, air and land exercise held annually in the region, got underway on Monday.
On Friday, Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport USNS Yuma (T-EPF-8) was the first foreign participant of Sea Breeze 2019 to pass through Turkish Straits into the Black Sea. This was Yum...