Maj. Christina Light (in red), Technical Operations Squadron Director of Operations with the Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick AFB, Fla., receives a briefing from Sean Kelly, the Ship's Operations Manager, for an upcoming balloon calibration sphere launch. Light is a trained and certified mission commander aboard USNS Howard O. Lorenzen, one of two naval ships that conduct ballistic missile surveillance operations for the Department of Defense's sole nuclear treaty monitoring center.

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