U.S. Navy Retail Specialist 3rd Class Melissa Melendez, from Farmingdale, N.Y., is pictured above directing a forklift operated by U.S. Navy Retail Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Hill, from Newark, N.J. aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) on Nov. 4, 2020.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is home ported in San Diego, and is the fourth Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered, aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and a proponent of naval power. She is the fourth ship named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, three bearing his full name and a fourth with just his last name.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt was launched in 1984, and saw her first action during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
