Experience life on the USS Eisenhower

Plane Captains in brown, and ordnance-men in red, direct an F/A-18E Super Hornet after landing on board the USS Eisenhower.

Yellow-shirt aircraft handlers direct the movement of a F/A-18E Super Hornet on the deck of the USS Eisenhower.

Flight operations aboard the USS Eisenhower from the vantage point of the ship’s bridge.

Yellow-shirt aircraft handlers and directors a F/A-18E Super Hornet on the deck of the USS Eisenhower.

Yellow-shirt aircraft handlers watch as a F/A-18E Super Hornet approaches to land on the deck of the USS Eisenhower.

F/A-18 C/D Hornet on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

USS Eisenhower flight deck crew members during flight operations. Yellow shirts coordinate the movement of aircraft, the brown shirts are plane captains, and the green shirts are catapult crew.

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower flight deck crew members during flight operations.

Hornet pilots walk on deck after landing on the USS Eisenhower.

USS Eisenhower flight deck crew members during flight operations. Yellow shirts coordinate the movement of aircraft and the brown shirts are plane captains and the green shirts are catapult crew. Red shirts handle ordnance and other hazardous items.

A plane captain cleans the cockpit of a F/A-18 C/D aboard the USS Eisenhower from the vantage point of the ship’s bridge.

EA-18G Growler crew from Squadron VAQ-130 Zappers walk on deck following a flight and landing on the USS Eisenhower.

Commanding Officer of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Navy Capt. Paul C. Spedero, an experienced naval aviator who flew combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, on the flight deck talking with red shirted emergency and ordnance crew members.

USS Eisenhower maintenance crew members on the hangar deck.

USS Eisenhower crew members carry supplies on the hangar deck during a coordinated ship-to-ship resupply mission.

USS Eisenhower crew members sit in full emergency gear below decks during emergency drills.

USS Eisenhower crew prepare meals in a large galley which serves the crew of the IKE.

USS Eisenhower crew prepare meals in a large galley which serves the crew of the IKE.

Space is a premium on the USS Eisenhower, but the workout facilities on board do have an ocean view.

Rear Admiral Jesse Wilson, commander, Carrier Strike Group 10, on board the USS Eisenhower.

The bridge aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower.

USS Eisenhower crew members walk the length of the flight deck searching for foreign objects or debris (FOD). The smallest piece of debris could damage aircraft.