190627-N-QR145-050 BALTIC SEA (June 27, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) transits the Baltic Sea, June 27, 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)