Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) scrape barnacles off an anchor chain on the

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Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) scrape barnacles off an anchor chain on the bow of the ship before getting underway for the ship's fall patrol. Preble is on patrol with the George Washington Carrier Strike Group in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

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