U.S. Navy Machinist Mate 3 Aaron Nutt, a native of Hampton, Ill., gets the attention of his dolphin while aboard a C-17 Globemaster III from the 535th Airlift Squadron, 15th Airlift Wing, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, Nov. 8. Nutt is currently assigned to the U.S. Navy Marine Mammals program as a dolphin handler and the C-17 crew is taking the Sailor and dolphin to Noumea, New Caledonia, where they will participate in Lagoon MINEX 2009, which is a humanitarian project where U.S. Navy, French, Australian and New Zealand military personnel will remove mines left over from WW II from the surrounding water of the area.