Gunner’s Mate 1st Class Immanuel Jarrett, of Beaufort, reviews maintenance reports aboard the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) during a brief stop March 22 for fuel and provisions in Rodman, Panama. Freedom is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Richard Cho, U.S. Navy.
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