GULF (Nov. 20, 2016) Petty Officer Second Class Stuart Kaestner, from Louisville, Ky., conducts maintenance on an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Swamp Foxes of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74 in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike). Kaestner serves aboard Ike as an aviation structural mechanic. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, a multinational effort to weaken and destroy Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant operations in the Middle East region and


GULF (Nov. 20, 2016) Petty Officer Second Class Stuart Kaestner, from Louisville, Ky., conducts maintenance on an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Swamp Foxes of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74 in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike). Kaestner serves aboard Ike as an aviation structural mechanic. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, a multinational effort to weaken and destroy Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant operations in the Middle East region and around the world.


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