After 50 days at sea, the guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) recently completed a mid-deployment voyage repair (MDVR) in Manama, Bahrain.

While in port, Nitze Sailors completed required ship maintenance in the engineering, operations, weapons, and plans and tactics departments as part of the MDVRs, which is necessary to ensure the ship is fully mission capable throughout the remainder of its deployment.

"Even after 50 days at sea, which involved 12 days of sustained combat operations, the crew attacked this short maintenance availability utilizing every working hour to complete much-needed maintenance, preservation, and repairs on a multitude of ship's systems, equipment and spaces," said Master Chief Petty Officer Sean Brown, Nitze's command master chief. "The crew has worked very hard under arduous conditions, and I could not be more proud of them."

While the port call was a working port, the crew had the chance to destress and take some liberty.

"It was nice to just relax, shop at the Navy Exchange and see some of Bahrain during our time off," Griffin continued.

Nitze is deployed as part of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (Ike CSG) to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts.

The IKECSG is the first CSG to deploy under the new optimized fleet response plan (OFRP), a cross-community collaboration effort to better prepare the Fleet in meeting combatant commander needs without straining the ships, planes and Sailors. It is also the centerpiece of the Great Green Fleet for the second half of 2016, an initiative that demonstrates efforts to transform energy use and highlight it as a strategic resource.

The Ike CSG includes staff of CSG-10, aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)(Ike), embarked staff and squadrons of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3, guided-missile cruisers USS San Jacinto (CG 56) and USS Monterey (CG 61), Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 26 staff and guided-missile destroyers USS Stout (DDG 55), USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), USS Mason (DDG 87), and Nitze.

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