MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Sept. 27, 2017) Sailors hold a phone and distance line aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) during a replenishment-at-sea with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195) while underway in Mediterranean Sea, Sept. 27, 2017. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its fourth patrol in the 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners, and national security interests in Europe.

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