PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 23, 2018) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class (SW/IDW) Connor Heaps (left), from Tulsa, Okla.; Boatswain's Mate Seaman Apprentice Luis Cristobal Alvarado (middle), from Costa Mesa, Calif.; and Boatswain's Mate Seaman Matthew Marquez, from Miami, splice a 5 3/8th-inch four-strand Aramid kevlar line to make a mooring line on board the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Anchorage is underway to support NASA's Orion spacecraft Underway Recovery Test 6 (URT-6). ( Navy

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