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Chief Fire Controlman (Aegis) Ralph Salas, right, from Palm Springs, California, and Electronics Technician 1st Class Christopher Stark, left, from Corapeake, North Carolina, monitor surface contacts from the combat information center as the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) conducts a freedom of navigation operation near the Spratly Islands. Benfold is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.