PHILIPPINE SEA (April 5, 2024) The guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a Standard Missile (SM) 2 during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea, April 5, 2024. Ralph Johnson is forward deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy's largest DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet's principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamaal Liddell)