U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Renee Cabrales talks to a Sailor in the well deck of amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) Dec. 11, 2011, in the Philippine Sea. New Orleans and embarked Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit operated in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group.