PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 23, 2018) Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Aaron Tierney, from Louisville, Kentucky, right, heaves in a shot line aboard the Arleigh burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) to begin rigging for a replenishment-at-sea with the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) as the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), background, cuts through the Pacific Ocean . Spruance and Mobile Bay are underway conducting routine operations as part of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 3 in the Pacific Fleet area of operations.

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