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A U.S. Navy sailor tosses a heaving line to the pier as the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) prepares to moor at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on Sept. 18, 2007. The destroyer is returning after a six-month deployment in support of Partnership of the Americas, a series of exercises both at sea and ashore throughout South America and the Caribbean.

A U.S. Navy sailor tosses a heaving line to the pier.

A U.S. Navy sailor tosses a heaving line to the pier as the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) prepares to moor at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on Sept. 18, 2007. The destroyer is returning after a six-month deployment in support of Partnership of the Americas, a series of exercises both at sea and ashore throughout South America and the Caribbean.

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