PHILIPPINE SEA (May 20, 2021) Ensign Kedrick Barrow, left, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, receives direction from Gunnner’s Mate 2nd Class Trevor Wiedebusch, from Grape Creek, Texas to fire during a live-fire exercise on the fantail of the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as it departs Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Five, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, as well as the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Oswald Felix Jr.)