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U.S. sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald heave a line to connect a fuel probe from the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos during a replenishment at sea in the South China Sea, April 5, 2015. The Fitzgerald is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.

HEAVING LINES

U.S. sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald heave a line to connect a fuel probe from the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos during a replenishment at sea in the South China Sea, April 5, 2015. The Fitzgerald is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.

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