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    Military personnel, appearing to be U.S. Navy sailors based on their dark uniforms and cover caps, are handling a large orange life raft or survival equipment on the deck of a naval vessel. The scene appears to be a training or drill exercise conducted at sea, with calm ocean water visible in the background. Multiple sailors are participating, with one appearing to instruct or demonstrate while others handle the orange material.

    MEDITERRANEAN SEA

    08.22.2018

    Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Krystina Coffey 

    U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet

    180822-N-QR145-051
    MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Aug. 22, 2018) - Sailors inflate a "killer tomato" target aboard the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) during a live-fire exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 22, 2018. Ross, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its seventh patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Krystina Coffey/ Released)

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    Date Taken: 08.22.2018
    Date Posted: 08.25.2018 13:20
    Photo ID: 4676659
    VIRIN: 180822-N-QR145-051
    Resolution: 5568x3712
    Size: 871.71 KB
    Location: MEDITERRANEAN SEA
    Web Views: 17
    Downloads: 4

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    Military personnel, appearing to be U.S. Navy sailors based on their dark uniforms and cover caps, are handling a large orange life raft or survival equipment on the deck of a naval vessel. The scene appears to be a training or drill exercise conducted at sea, with calm ocean water visible in the background. Multiple sailors are participating, with one appearing to instruct or demonstrate while others handle the orange material.
    A group of uniformed personnel, likely U.S. Coast Guard or Navy sailors, are handling a large orange inflatable object on the deck of a vessel at sea. The orange object, which appears to be a life raft or inflatable buoy, is heavily patched with silver metallic tape and bears the text 'HAND HOLD ONLY' written on its surface. The scene takes place on a ship's deck with calm blue ocean water visible in the background.
    A person wearing a dark navy uniform and black cap is using a mounted optical instrument, likely a pelorus or bearing circle, aboard what appears to be a naval vessel. The individual is looking through the eyepiece of the device while positioned on an open deck with the ocean visible in the background. The scene suggests a navigation or observation task being performed at sea.
    A naval warship is actively firing its main deck gun, with a large plume of white smoke visible at the muzzle. The image is taken from an elevated position on the same vessel, looking forward along the bow deck. The ship appears to be underway on calm, open blue water.
    A military or naval personnel member wearing a helmet and blue uniform is firing a machine gun from the side of a vessel over open water. A spent brass casing is visibly ejecting from the weapon mid-fire, with muzzle smoke and a red target float visible in the water downrange. This appears to be a live-fire training exercise conducted at sea.

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