By MC1 Bryan Niegel, Navy Office of Community Outreach
EAST CHINA SEA - Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Christian Martinez, left, from New York City, acts as the crew-serve weapons instructor for Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Trevor Felker, from Alliance, while he fires the .50-caliber machine gun during a weapons qualification aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105).
Dewey is assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 and is underway supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific.
CTF 71/DESRON 15 is the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force.
With more than 90 percent of all trade traveling by sea, and 95 percent of the world’s international phone and internet traffic carried through fiber optic cables lying on the ocean floor, Navy officials continue to emphasize that the prosperity and security of the United States is directly linked to a strong and ready Navy.