PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 10, 2017) Seaman Recruit Thomas Bade removes the life line in preparation to deploy a search-and-rescue swimmer during a man overboard drill aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108). Wayne E. Meyer is part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group who will report to 3rd Fleet, headquartered in San Diego, while deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of 3rd Fleet into the region.

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