MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Dec. 8, 2016) Petty Officer 3rd Class Joseph Becker, from Elizabethville, Pa., cuts a pipe using a pipe threader in the pipe shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike). Becker serves aboard Ike as a hull maintenance technician. Ike, currently deployed as part of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, is conducting naval operations in the 6th Fleet area of operations in support of national security interests in Europe.

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