SAN DIEGO (June 26, 2015) - Guided missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) returns from a 250-day independent deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. Milius is a multi-mission ship with anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare surface combatants capabilities; designed to operate independently or with an associated strike group. While deployed the crew of more than 300 Sailors conducted presence operations and goodwill activities with partner nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Melissa K. Russell)