220619-N-N3764-1002 CARIBBEAN SEA - (June 19, 2022) -- Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class Eulises Bacerra conducts pre-flight checks on an MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, Detachment 8, aboard the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15), June 19, 2022. Billings is deployed to the 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

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