Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Evan Sand, from Clearwater, MN, uses the ship’s binoculars to search for contacts on the bridge-wing of the guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 62) as the ship conducts routine underway operations in the Taiwan Strait. Barry is assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force, forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Lieutenant Junior Grade Samuel Hardgrove).