AUGUSTA BAY, Italy (Dec. 11, 2014) Chief Master-at-Arms Joseph Datka, from Oconomowoc, Wis., monitors civilian tugboats as the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) departs Augusta Bay following a port visit. Cole, homeported in Norfolk, is conducting naval operations in the 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of national security interests in Europe.

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