The Navy serves up turkey alongside sorties on Thanksgiving

The crew is spending their second Thanksgiving on duty, and will be carving their own roasted turkeys when their duties aboard the thousand-foot long American aircraft carrier allow. Some will spend part of the day flying over the Middle East, dropping precision munitions on IS militants.

"It's not going to stop us from having a great Thanksgiving meal," Capt. Paul C. Spedero, Jr. said. "We're going to watch football when we can. It'll probably be a little bit time-delayed but we're going to do all the things that we can do and what we can expect to do with our families back home," he said.