USS Sterett`s Road To 7th Fleet: Maintenance, Training Set Destroyer Up for Success
(WorldNews Environment)

PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Two years of training and maintenance prepared the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) to deploy with Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. Amid operations in U.S. 7th Fleet, Damage Control Assistant Lt. David Jimenez recalled the preparations toward the June departure from San Diego for deployment and the ship`s Fleet Response Training Plan, beginning when Sterett first arrived in the yards in 2018. `We were certifying seven warfare areas at the same time,` said Jimenez. `We had execution plans that were essential and we had to deconflict at every level to the...