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Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper take in the mooring lines as the ship departs for deployment. Hopper and the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal deployed with the Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group for a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

MOORING LINES

Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper take in the mooring lines as the ship departs for deployment. Hopper and the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal deployed with the Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group for a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

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