Lt. Cody Scarborough, from Lubbock, Texas, left, and Lt. Nate Penka, from Garden City, Kan., do final checks before launching an aircraft off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Carl Vinson and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing 17, are on deployment in the 7th Fleet area of operations supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.