170217-N-RM689-073 PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 17, 2017) Hull Maintenance Technician Fireman Robert Holden welds two pieces of metal together to make a bracket in the general workshop aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). The ship is on a western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of U.S. 3rd Fleet into the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/Released)