Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Airman Jose Lian Alonzo Mendez, left, and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Airman Gerald Stultz grease a shuttle on a catapult on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Carl Vinson is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations, and theater security cooperation efforts in the region.