181025-N-QR145-133 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 25, 2018) Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Robert Hoyt II reads a maintenance requirement card to deploy a torpedo counter-measure system aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) in the Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 25, 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)