Houston Native Serves on Navy Deployment

Style Magazine Newswire | 4/22/2019, 1:16 p.m.
Culinary Specialist 1st Class Samuel Villarreal, from Houston, Texas, uses binoculars while standing watch during a combat systems drill aboard …
Culinary Specialist 1st Class Samuel Villarreal

1904119-N-XN169-1031 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (April 19, 2019) Culinary Specialist 1st Class Samuel Villarreal, from Houston, Texas, uses binoculars while standing watch during a combat systems drill aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87). Mason is underway as part of Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Groupâs (ABECSG) deployment in support of maritime security cooperation efforts in U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. With Abraham Lincoln as the flagship, deploying strike group assets include staffs, ships and aircraft of Carrier Strike Group 12 (CSG 12), Destroyer Squadron 2 (DESRON 2), USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW 7). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lasheba James/Released)