Photo by U.S. Navy Mass Comm. Specialist 3rd Class Josiah J. Kunkle

SOUTH CHINA SEA – Valdosta native Roberta Sherman is serving as Chief Engineman aboard the USS Gabrielle Giffords.

Pictured here on November 23, 2019, Sherman practices restraint techniques on Gunners Mate 2nd Class Joshua Phlegar, from Newport News, Va., in the mission bay aboard Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) during a non-lethal weapons course.

Gabrielle Giffords is on a rotational deployment to INDOPACOM, conducting operations, exercises and port visits throughout the region and working hull-to-hull with allied and partner navies to provide maritime security and stability, key pillars of a free and open Indo-Pacific.