SOUTH CHINA SEA (April 29, 2024) Aviation Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Joshua Dawkins, top, from Villarica, Ga., and Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Hunter Maddox, from Rome, Ga., maintain an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter attached to the "Eightballers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8, on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), April 29, 2024. Theodore Roosevelt, flagship of Carrier Strike Group Nine, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy's largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adina Phebus)