By Joshua Stewart
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is touring the Pacific to meet with government and military leaders as his department plans to shift more ships, sailors and Marines to the region.
Mabus left Washington on March 28 for Hawaii to meet with Adm. Cecil Haney, the new commander of Pacific Fleet. From there he will stop in Guadalcanal, Australia, East Timor, Brunei, the Seychelles and Cape Verde.
He told Navy Times in an interview that the goal of the two-week trip is to build stronger relationships between the host nations and the U.S. military, particularly in the Pacific — a focus of the Obama administration’s new national security strategy.
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