JAPAN

(Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamaal Liddell)

SEA OF JAPAN (July 27, 2024) Ensign Lauren Lagenberg, from Grapevine, Texas, participates in a general quarters drill aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) in the Sea of Japan, July 27. Ralph Johnson is forward deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and the U.S. 7th fleet’s principal surface force.

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