CARIBBEAN SEA (July 23, 2021) Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Nicholas Wendell, left, and Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Kevin Wix, assigned to the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), participate in vertical replenishment exercises with the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15), July 23, 2021. Sioux City 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 and Eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marianne Guemo)