MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Dec. 10, 2016) Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Ledet, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94), wipes a bulkhead during a shipwide field day. Ledet serves onboard Nitze as an information systems technician and is responsible for writing programs to handle the collection, manipulation and distribution of data for the ship's information systems. Nitze, deployed as part of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, is conducting naval operations in the 6th Fleet area of operations in support of national security interests in Europe.

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