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CLEVELAND BAY, Australia (July 28, 2025) Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) simulate loading ammunition from a barge during Noble Prime 25-3 in the Cleveland Bay, Australia, July 28. Noble Prime 25-3 is the latest in a series of biannual expeditionary rearmaments of U.S. Navy destroyers in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Higgins 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. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Trevor Hale)