 The ability to safely and effectively perform an underway replenishment at sea is essential to completing the Navy's mission. Each minute sea is an all-hands effort. It requires collaboration and coordination from all departments on board. This multifaceted evolution brings the ship together to accomplish a common goal. I'm BM2 Boatwright, deck department on board the USS Baton LHD-5. Today we completed an underway replenishment. An underway replenishment is very vital to the ship. It keeps us out to sea and keeps us mission ready. We did fueling. Bring the hose over from the delivery ship, hook it up into the probe receiver on our end. Once we indicate that the probe appears to be seated, we'll commence pumping. It's no different than pumping your car at the gas station except we don't stop moving. With an underway replenishment, we can just pump without stopping and we can bring on all the cargo without having to point to a board. So the underway replenishment goes far beyond deck departments' involvement in the evolution. You also have Air Department who conducted the vertical replenishment about all the stores on board via Helo and you have all the supply departments who conducted the stores on load throughout the hangar bay. I'm Chief Petty Officer Banks. I'm the cargo chief for the food service division. The Plains of NSC for food service, we're bringing on all the stores that we're feeding the blue and green team while being on board. We plan out our working party. We lay out and understand what store rooms we're going to fill for that specific order. We have to do a first in, first out so we have to move things and put the new stuff at the bottom and fresh stuff on top that's currently in our store room. Without that logistic parts of it, we can't make it from A to B because you've got to feed the crew. You can do everything else because if you're not feeding your crew, you're not going to be able to make it to the mission. Without us, we won't be able to conduct evolutions and every day we conduct another evolution just proves we're the most elite in the fleet. The ability to safely and effectively perform an underway replenishment at sea is essential to completing the Navy's mission.