Never served on a DDG but spent enough time on USN ships to know the pallets in this photo are deliberate.
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Still wondering about pallets but interestingly, DDG81 was major component of the pre-Syria atttack ruse:
https://www.stripes.com/news/navy/warship-ruse-and-new-stealth-missiles-how-the-syria-attack-unfolded-1.522147
“President Donald Trump's outrage over another apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad was clear. And for the second time in his presidency, the U.S. commander-in-chief demanded retaliation.
As images of sick or dying children flooded global media all week, the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill was en route to the Mediterranean to join a flotilla of allied warships, including another U.S. destroyer, the USS Donald Cook.
It was a ruse.