181023-N-QR145-064 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 23, 2018) Ensign Joshua Hartman boards the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) from a rigid-hull inflatable boat during a parts transfer with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) in the Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 23, 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)