Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Anthony Robles, from Lancaster, Calif., catches a disc on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) Jan. 26, 2020. Rafael Peralta, part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, is on a scheduled deployment to the Indo-Pacific.
The USS Rafael Peralta at sea. The ship is named for Marine Corps Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a Marine assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, III Marine Expeditionary Force. He was killed in combat during the second battle of Fallujah in Iraq, Nov. 15, 2004.
Hometown heroes – USS Rafael Peralta
