Keywords: US Navy 040322-N-4565G-003 Chief Culinary Specialist Ed Pabon, of Villalba, Puerto Rico, leads the way in preparing a celebration feast aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) for his shipmates after completing.jpg en Atlantic Ocean Mar 22 2004 - Chief Culinary Specialist Ed Pabon of Villalba Puerto Rico leads the way in preparing a celebration feast aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy CV 67 for his shipmates after completing a Composite Training Unit Exercise COMTUEX in the Gulf of Mexico COMPTUEX is an intermediate level exercise designed to forge the strike group into a cohesive fighting team and is a critical step in pre-deployment training During COMPTUEX more than a dozen ships and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen CVW-17 embarked on Kennedy conducted war game exercises using training ranges along the East Coast of the U S and the Gulf of Mexico The exercise took advantage of existing ranges under the Navy s comprehensive Training Resource Strategy TRS These ranges offer training facilities and realistic simulations better preparing U S Navy ships and Sailors to participate in the Global War on Terrorism U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate Airman Tommy Gilligan RELEASED 2004-03-22 040322-N-4565G-003 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 12844 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate Airman Tommy Gilligan PD-USGov-Military-Navy Culinary specialist United States Navy Aboard USS John F Kennedy CV-67 |