170321-N-RM689-091 U.S. 7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 21, 2017) Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Roderick Williams (left), from Cleveland, Ohio, and Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Deandre Dumas, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, prepare the second course for a dinner aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first woman to enlist in the military. The destroyer is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend U.S. 3rd Fleet command and control functions into the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have routinely patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific for more than 70 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/Released)