Quartermaster 3rd Class Ryan Young speaks into a sound powered telephone aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) while on watch, upon entering the port at Naval Station Mayport, Fla.

Navel Station Mayport, Fla. (Mar. 22, 2004) Quartermaster 3rd Class Ryan Young speaks into a sound powered telephone aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) while on watch, upon entering the port at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., 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 Navys 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 Photographers Mate 3rd Class Joshua Karsten. File# 040322-N-8704K-001