180405-N-OV185-009 NORFOLK (April 5, 2018) Deploying Sailors check-in at Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC), prior to being issued gear. ECRC provides processing, equipping, training, certification and proactive family support to Sailors, Individual Augmentees and provisional units throughout all deployment phases in support of combatant commanders requirements, contingency operations, or national crises. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist James C. Brown/Released)