Sailors aboard the Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conducted a pinning ceremony for the strike group’s newest chief petty officers Sept. 29, in the ship’s hangar bay.
Twenty-nine chiefs were pinned during the ceremony, representing IKE’s crew, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 22 and Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 2.
“Today we celebrate the dawn of your new naval life and the accomplishment and recognition for which...
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Hudson, a Naval Academy graduate, commissioned in 1999. During her 24-year career, she completed her residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and worked at Walter Reed, Uniform Services University, SURFLANT, and Naval Medical Forces Atlantic. She has deployed once to Afghanistan and twice on USS Comfort, including a deployment during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hudson credits the length of her career to a love for serving.