USS Cole Operations Gallery (10 Photos)

While on its long journey from the Mediterranean Sea, across the Aegian Sea to the Black Sea, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) conducted multiple operations.

The vessel conducted small boat operations and a passenger transfer, as well as a pre-action caliber fire exercise with USS Ross (DDG 71) during which USS Cole launched an MK 45 5-inch lightweight gun and a periodic scheduled maintenance of a Mark 32 torpedo tube.

USS Cole also engaged in replenishment-at-sea (RAS) with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195).

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Gunner’s Mate Seaman James Lumbley rotates a Mark 32 torpedo tube outboard aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) for periodic scheduled maintenance

Cole, homeported in Norfolk, Va., is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.