SAN DIEGO (June 27, 2017) Operations Specialist 3rd Class Benjamin Kirkpatrick, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) color guard, salutes the national ensign as it flies at half-mast in honor of the seven Sailors who perished aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) during a collision at sea. Carl Vinson is pierside at its homeport in San Diego, Calif., after completing a five-month deployment to the western Pacific. (

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