PACIFIC OCEAN (June 10, 2017) Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Matthew Avila, from Fresno, Calif., fires an M240B machine gun during a live-fire exercise on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83). Howard is currently underway as part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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