190606-N-QR145-087 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 6, 2019) Sailors send a phone and distance line from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) to the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Kanawha (T-AO 196) during a replenishment-at-sea in the Atlantic Ocean, June 6, 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)