PACIFIC OCEAN (March 26, 2021) Senior Chief Operations Specialist Steve Sheffield from Fox Hill, Va., loads ammunition into a .50-caliber machine gun during a crew served weapons training exercise aboard the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), March 26, 2021. Freedom is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South's mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Richard Cho)