Official websites use .mil
Secure .mil websites use HTTPS
GARAPAN, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Nov. 13, 2023) Chief Culinary Specialist Angel Marte, right, from Chicago, spends time with students at Garapan Elementary School in Saipan during a port visit by the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86), Nov. 13. Shoup is assigned to Commander, Task Force (CTF) 70, and is forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Operations Specialist 2nd Class Marisol Bennett)