MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 24, 2015) Lt. j.g. Simone Mims, from New London, Connecticut, holds the national ensign in preparation for a burial at sea ceremony aboard USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) Oct. 24, 2015.
Donald Cook, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward deployed to Rota, Spain is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. Original public domain image from Flickr