210530-N-RL695-1240 PONCE, PUERTO RICO - (May 30, 2021) -- Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Rudy Nieves, left, and Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Kevin Wix, assigned to the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), conduct a stores onload while in port Ponce, Puerto Rico, for a planned maintenance availability (PMAV), May 30, 2021. Sioux City 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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