Personnel assigned to Commander, Task Group 52.3, prepare an unmanned underwater vehicle for transport during the United States and United Kingdom Mine Countermeasures Exercise II aboard Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (AFSB(I) 15). Formerly designated as an amphibious transport dock (LPD), Ponce was recently converted and reclassified to fulfill a longstanding U.S. Central Command request for an Afloat Forward Staging Base to be forward deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jumar T. Balacy/Released)