GULF OF ADEN (Dec. 11, 2014) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), left, transits alongside the Jiangkai II CNS Yun Chang (FFG571), right, and the Fuchi-class replenishment ship CNS Chao Hu (AOR 890) during - China Counter-Piracy Exercise 15. Sterett is deployed as part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and is supporting Operation Inherent Resolve conducting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed and theater security cooperation efforts in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

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