EAST CHINA SEA – Hull Technician 1st Class Jenny Strickland(above), from South New Berlin, New York, conducts maintenance on a vacuum collection, holding and transfer pipe aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) while operating in the East China Sea on Dec. 7.

Dewey is forward-deployed and assigned to Commander, Task Force 71/Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, which is the Navy’s largest DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force.