Machinist's Mate Fireman Apprentice Casey Hopkins, from Nashville, Tenn., loads the pulper with food and paper in the amidships pulper room of the U.S Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington. The large pulper dissolves food and paper with high-pressured salt water. George Washington and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interest of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.