Likely while most of the rest of us were sleeping early Monday morning, a Stevensville man who is member of our armed forces deployed somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea was busy training a recruit from New Jersey on the proper way to transfer pallets of supplies from one ship to another while both were at sea.
Evan Veine, a Seaman in the U.S. Navy who hails from Stevensville, is serving his country aboard the guided-missile destroyer, USS Carney, an Arleigh-Burke-class destroyer DDG 64. On Monday, January 13th, Veine was instructing Seaman Recruit Hannah Smith from Vineland, New Jersey in the role of Underway Replenishment Signalman aboard the USS Carney.
The two were dispatching a loaded pallet from their ship to the USNS Kanawha, a Henry J. Kaiser-class Fleet Replenishment Oiler T-AO-196.
Veine’s vessel, the Carney, is forward-deployed to Rota, Spain and is on its seventh such forward deployed naval force patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa.
Veine is a 20-year old graduate of Lakeshore High School.
The U.S. Navy photo accompanying this story on Moody on the Market is courtesy of Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Fred Gray IV.
