Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Soriya Chum, from Columbus, Ohio, signals to the sliding padeye operator to lower a pallet aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10). Benfold is assigned to Task Force 71/Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the 7th Fleet’s principal surface force.

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