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TAIWAN STRAIT (Nov. 20, 2020) – Ensign Antonia Vinci, from St. Petersburg, Fla., scans the horizon for contacts on the bridge 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)