180905-N-QR145-010 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Sept. 5, 2018) A Phalanx close-in weapons system fires from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) during a live-fire exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, Sept. 5, 2018. Ross, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its seventh patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Krystina Coffey/ Released)