Hospitalman Clara Aldencoe, from Columbus, Ohio, assigned to the Red Lions of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 15 transports a patient during a medical training event in the hangar bay aboard aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Carl Vinson and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing 17, are deployed supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.