Boatswain's Mate Seaman Joel Friedman, from Hyde Park, N.Y., looks over the rail during sea-and-anchor detail aboard USS New York as it arrives in Haifa, Israel, Dec. 31, 2014. New York, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group/24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.