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Information Specialist Technitian 1st Class Ritha Monterrosso smiles while in formation in Okinawa.

((U.S. Navy Photo by Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kirkland Jackson)

Information Specialist Technitian 1st Class Ritha Monterrosso, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, smiles while in formation in Okinawa, Japan, on August 07, 2025. NMCB 4 is forward deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region to support and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. As the stand-in, crisis response, naval engineering force, NMCB 4 maintains a ready posture to deliver in-theater expeditionary logistics via expeditionary shore infrastructure, forward damage repair, and mobile construction

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