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PARACEL ISLANDS, SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 05, 2021) Ensign Grayson Sigler, right, from Corpus Christi, Texas, scans the horizon as Ensign Luke Dionne, from Binghamton, N.Y., looks through a telescopic alidade while standing watch in the pilot house aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) as the ship conducts routine underway operations. McCain is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.