6 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 11, 2017) Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Christopher Briggs, from Gainesville, Fla., cuts leather to make a sheath during holiday routine aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59). Princeton 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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