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180617-N-ZL062-0014 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 17, 2018) Chief Hospital Corpsman Mark Naluz, from Nashville, Tennessee, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jenson Yalunggonzales, from Long Beach, California, cut a cake in the Chief Mess on the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) during a celebration for the Hospital Corpsmen's 120th birthday. The Hospital Corps was officially created on June 17th, 1898, but hospital corpsmen have been serving the U.S. Navy for over 200 years. Chancellorsville is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.