USS Mullany (DD-528), a Fletcher-class destroyer that first saw action in WWII, is shown here decades later performing an underway replenishment alongside a larger vessel, likely the carrier USS Ticonderoga, during Vietnam War operations. Photographs like this document the unglamorous but essential logistics of naval warfare: keeping ships fueled, armed, and supplied while maintaining station at sea, often in rough weather far from any port. Project: 218408