MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 24, 2016) Seaman Noah Cheeks from Follansbee, W. Va., moves to secure a French Panther helicopter aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) during flight quarters. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is providing multi-warfare defense support to Charles de Gaulle carrier-based operations in the Eastern Mediterranean against identified ISIL positions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

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