USS Porter Completes Exercise Atlas Handshake with the Royal Moroccan Navy
210115-N-BM428-0366 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 15, 2021) Rounds fired from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter’s (DDG 78) Mark 45 5-inch gun make impact on the Aourioura Ordnance Range near Tan Tan, off the coast of Morocco, during a live-fire exercise portion of Exercise Atlas Handshake, Jan 15, 2021. Porter, forward deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its ninth patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa.
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Damon Grosvenor, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Public AffairsAtlantic OceanJan 15, 2021