190428-N-QR145-088 DARDANELLES STRAIT (April 28, 2019) Operations Specialist 2nd Class Ashton Davis verifies safe passage aboard the Arleigh Burk-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) in the Dardanelles Strait, April 28, 2019. Ross, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its eighth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Krystina Coffey/Released)