PHILIPPINE SEA . Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Demarcus Gatison, from Vallejo, Calif., fires an MK38 25mm machine gun during live-fire weapons training aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67). Shiloh is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryre Arciaga/)PHILIPPINE SEA. Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Shelby Wilkes fires a Mark 38 25 mm machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89). Mustin is underway conducting operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific while assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cody Beam) PHILIPINE SEA. U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) sailors stand in formation on the flight deck aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52), top, and the JMSDF Takanami-class destroyer JS Suzunami (DD 114) during the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Advanced Warfighting Training exercise. This formation to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan signed in 1960. BAWT improves interoperability between the U.S. Navy and JMSDF to work together to confront any contingency. ( U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cody Beam)VIETNAM . Lt. j.g. Courtney Avon, a public affairs officer, poses for a photo with children at the Dorothea’s Project Legacies Charity Center in Da Nang, Vietnam, during a community relations project organized by the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), March 6, 2020. Theodore Roosevelt and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) are in Vietnam for a port visit during their scheduled deployment to the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brandon Richardson)
