Posted: 03/01/2014
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 17, 2014) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) fires its close-in weapons system during a live-fire exercise. Donald Cook, the first of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to be forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is serving on a scheduled patrol to the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility as part of the president's phased adaptive approach to European ballistic missile defense. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Edward Guttierrez III)