GULF OF ADEN (Nov. 22, 2020) Sailors handle the phone and distance line on the forecastle of the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), while operating in support of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) in the Gulf of Aden, Nov. 22, 2020. The CMF is a multinational maritime partnership, which exists to counter illicit non-state actors on the high seas, promoting security, stability and prosperity in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV)