Maintainers in the Trenches

AT3 Chris Mooney performs maintenance on a video cable in the 2M/Cable Repair shop aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68). Navy photo by John Wagner AO2 David Mathews installs a set screw after replacing a nose plug on a laser guided bomb unit (GBU) 32 bomb aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). Navy photo by MC3 Gary Prill

Sailors perform routine maintenance on an SH-60B helicopter assigned to the Saberhawks of HSL-47 on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

(CVN-72). Navy photo by MC3 Geoffrey Lewis

Marine Corps Flight Equipment Technician Cpl. Ceasar Hernandez, assigned to the Red Devils of VMFA-232, performs maintenance on a torso harness during a nine-day inspection aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68). Navy photo by MCSN John Wagner