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MESSENGER LINE
U.S. Navy Seaman Auche Robertchalmers pulls the messenger line free of the span wire during a replenishment on the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in the Mediterranean Sea, Nov. 23, 2014. The destroyer is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility to support U.S. national security interests in Europe.

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