210627-N-RG587-1035 BAB AL MANDEB (June 27, 2021) Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), left, guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57), right, and guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72), not pictured, transit the Bab Al Mandeb Strait, June 27. Vella Gulf is operating with the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group while deployed to the 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations and providing airpower to protect and coalition forces as they conduct drawdown operations from Afghanistan.

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