Manning the Rails

With the navy as the ships deploy sailors will stand at attention around the whole of the ship, outside.  This is refered to as manning the rails.  They also do this upon returns to home port as well.  Yesterday Jay was informed that he would be Manning the Rails up on the island.  He's done this once before when the Nimitz came home from a deployment so doing it as a departure was different.  Apparently the Ike's media department got a great shot of him from the flight deck.  They (ship's media team) posted photos on the ship's FB page and this morning I got quite the suprise at being able to clearly see Jay manning the rails.

See if you can find him, I did instantly.

The deployment has begun and now it's just a matter of port visits and waiting for those orders to show up on paper so we know when his return will be.