Gunner's Mate Second Class Paul Thomas, from Morrow, Georgia, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke�s (DDG 51) weapons department, dismantles a M1 Garand rifle inside the ships armory Sept. 5, 2020, Burke is in preparation for a joint maneuvering evolution with USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting an array of integrated steaming evolutions. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Riley McDowell)