U.S. Navy Chief Gunner’s Mate Thomas Salmons, from Logansport, Indiana, observes in the above photo as Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Christian Freda, from Long Island, New York, fires an M2A1 .50-caliber machine gun aboard the Emory S. Land-class submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 20, 2022.
A submarine tender is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines.
The USS Frank Cable is currently on patrol conducting expeditionary maintenance and logistics in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.