 Hi, I'm Petty Officer Raheem Lumpkins from Monroe, Louisiana, Washington, Parish, and I'm station number one at the USS Enterprise. I'm a culinary specialist. I've been here about four years now, and I prepare food for an enlisted crew on the ship. As a culinary specialist, I'm born at the Enterprise. I prepare and ensure the meals of over 5,000 enlisted sailors in the Ford Galway. In the Ford Galway, we serve a speed line that consists of hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, chicken wings. You name it, we have it. What I think makes me different about being a culinary specialist is that I'm the only culinary specialist from Louisiana, and what I do is kind of bring that Cajun flavor to what we're trying to offer here on the board at the USS Enterprise, and my grandmother being a native of New Orleans is really helping me fuel that fire by me being in the kitchen with her when I was younger, to just excel in everything that I do in the Navy. On my spare time on board at the USS Enterprise, I like to do a lot of different things. I'm very interested in karaoke night that we have on Saturday night, sponsored by our morale warfare and recreation department. We also like to play spades, you know, throw down on dominoes, get the bones going. Growing up, my mom used to always invite her friends over. They used to play spades and dominoes all the time, and me and my younger brother would never understand it because we were too young, but when we got older, she started teaching us slowly and slowly and slowly until we got really good and started playing her to where we would kind of beat her and she would just kind of send us off to our room or whatever, but those are the good times that I remember about it. When I get back home to Monroe, Louisiana, the first thing I like to do is kind of walk around the community that I grew up in because it built the foundation that started my naval career, being in a strong, positive community like that really made me the person that I am today. Well, I'd just like to say to everyone back home in Monroe, Louisiana, thank you so much for letting me be a part of your family, all the way from Carver Elementary, graduating from Richwood High School, my church family, a little flower, and I want to give a special thanks out to my mom, Rosalind Lumpkins, my little brother, Raquelman, my grandparents, Benny and Charles Ross. Thank you for everything that you've done for me and I'm hoping I'm making you proud.