'Round the Chuckbox

Each aircraft carrier has multiple feeding venues for the officers and crew. In addition the the general mess, where enlisted sailors and Marines take their meals, the wardroom mess serves officers, cabin mess the captain and flag mess the admiral. Chief petty officers eat in the CPO mess, otherwise known as the Goat Locker ...

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 6, 2008) -- Culinary Specialist Seaman Jessica Menz, from Minn., carves an orange and cherry tomatoes into a fruit sculpture in the Chief Petty Officer's Mess aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Culinary Specialist makes fruit sculptures as garnish for a better presentation of the food they serve. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is on a routine deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility operating in the Western Pacific and Indian oceans.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Oliver Cole.