ARABIAN GULF (Nov. 20, 2016) Petty Officer 3rd Class Vashti Walters, from Tampa, Fla., speaks to family members on a phone aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike). 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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