Gunner’s Mate Seaman Jonathan Ward, right, from Forsyth, Ga., supervises Gunner’s Mate Seaman Timothy Farris, from Little Rock, Ark., while he fires an M9 pistol during a small-arms weapons qualification shoot on the flight deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Germantown is part of the Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group, commanded by Rear Adm. Hugh Wetherald, and is conducting joint forces exercises in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Patrick Dionne/Released)