ARABIAN SEA (April 21, 2021) The guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command underway replenishment oiler USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) in the Arabian Sea, April 21, 2021. Laboon is deployed with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility and conducting naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jeremy R. Boan)