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U.S. Navy Ensign John Bishop participates in a live fire training exercise with an M240B light machine gun on the guided missile destroyer USS Sterett. The Sterett is part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, which is supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility in the Indian Ocean, Oct. 16, 2014.

U.S. Navy Ensign John Bishop participates in a live fire training exercise with an M240B light machine gun on the guided missile destroyer USS Sterett. The Sterett is part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, which is supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility in the Indian Ocean, Oct. 16, 2014.

U.S. Navy Ensign John Bishop participates in a live fire training exercise with an M240B light machine gun on the guided missile destroyer USS Sterett. The Sterett is part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, which is supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility in the Indian Ocean, Oct. 16, 2014.

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