181003-N-QR145-481 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 3, 2018) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Tanya Riker Romano signals to an SH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, during flight operations aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) while in the Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 3, 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)