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Bridgeton native serves aboard U.S. Navy warship
MEDITERRANEAN SEA - A Bridgeton native is serving aboard USS Porter, a guided-missile destroyer, currently conducting maritime operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Kayla Davis, who joined the Navy two years ago, is a 2015 Cumberland Regional High School and 2019 Fairleigh Dickinson University graduate.
Today, Davis is serving as a gunner s mate. Gunner s mates are a versatile rate, said Davis. We work with small arms, crew serve weapons, missiles and many more. What I do specifically is, I work with missiles and the system that they are launched out of. I conduct maintenance on the Vertical Launching System. I make sure our system works properly and everything runs smoothly, said Davis.