190417-N-XN169-1003 CAGLIARI, Italy (April 17, 2019)

190417-N-XN169-1003 CAGLIARI, Italy (April 17, 2019) Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Jazmine Suarez, from Bronx, N.Y., stands watch as a line handler during a sea-and-anchor evolution aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87). Mason is underway as part of Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group’s (ABECSG) deployment in support of maritime security cooperation efforts in U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. With Abraham Lincoln as the flagship, deploying strike group assets include staffs, ships and aircraft of Carrier Strike Group 12 (CSG 12), Destroyer Squadron 2 (DESRON 2), USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW 7); as well as Alvaro de Bazan-class Spanish frigate ESPS Méndez Nuñez (F 104). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lasheba James/Released)