 The guided-missile cruiser USS Choson departs a joint-based Pearl Harbor Hickam for a scheduled Western Pacific deployment April 30th. While deployed, Choson will conduct theater security operations with partner nations while providing deterrence, promoting peace and security, preserving freedom of the seas, and providing humanitarian assistance and disaster response. We're going to be doing some theater security cooperation ops. We'll be working with other countries in the region and supporting the seven fleets mission. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Jonathan Pancall.