Quartermaster First Class Wyatt Fields serving country
Quartermaster First Class Wyatt Fields, from Bonners Ferry relayed a message over the One Main Circuit.
(Photo courtesy U.S. Navy/MC Second Class Samantha Oblander)
EAST CHINA SEA— On March 26, Quartermaster First Class Wyatt Fields, from Bonners Ferry relayed a message over the One Main Circuit.
He is on the bridge of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson. Ralph Johnson is forward-deployed to the U.S. Seventh Fleet in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
90 percent of all trade traveling by sea and 95 percent of the world’s international phone and internet traffic is carried through fiber optic cables lying on the ocean floor. Navy officials continue to emphasize that the prosperity and security of the United States is directly linked to a strong and ready Navy.