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The forward deployed guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens fires its Phalanx close-in weapons system during a weapons test while under way in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 6, 2012. Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the U.S. Navy’s only forward deployed carrier strike group based out of Yokosuka, Japan.

WEAPONS TEST

The forward deployed guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens fires its Phalanx close-in weapons system during a weapons test while under way in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 6, 2012. Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the U.S. Navy’s only forward deployed carrier strike group based out of Yokosuka, Japan.

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