161025-N-FP878-264 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 25, 2016) USS Ross (DDG 71), not shown, conducts plane guard operations for the French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R 91) Oct. 25, 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)