160924-N-FP878-495 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Sept. 24, 2016) Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Tanya Riker, from Milford, Pa., holds up chains while conducting flight operations with a French navy NH-90 Sea Lion aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) Sept. 24, 2016. 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. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Theron J. Godbold/Rel

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160924-N-FP878-495 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Sept. 24, 2016) Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Tanya Riker, from Milford, Pa., holds up chains while conducting flight operations with a French navy NH-90 Sea Lion aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) Sept. 24, 2016. 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. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Theron J. Godbold/Released)

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