Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Austin Ward prepares to fire a .50-caliber machine gun during live-fire training aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Carney in the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 1, 2018. Ward is a sonar technician (surface). Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its fifth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik