U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sonny Escalante

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Logan Robertson, from Mount Pleasant, lays out aircraft placement on a display board aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln, flagship of Carrier Strike Group Three, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in the South China Sea. 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.