161003-N-FP878-066MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 3, 2016) Patti Delesante, a professor for Central Texas College gives a public speaking course aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) Oct. 3, 2016. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is providing multi-warfare defense support to Charles de Gaulle carrier-based operations in the Eastern Mediterranean against identified ISIL positions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Theron J. Godbold/Released)