Navy Profile: Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Robert Thrasher

BALTIC SEA (WDEF) – A Chattanooga sailor is taking part in the multinational maritime exercise BALTOPS.

It is one of the largest exercises in northern Europe.

But Robert Thrasher serves by cooking.

The Culinary Specialist 3rd Class is assigned to the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington.

“Healthy food is a healthy life,” said Thrasher. “Keeping everybody mission ready is important for maintaining focus on the task at hand, which right now is BALTOPS 2017.”

This is the 45th edition of BALTOPS, which combines maritime, ground an air forces working together to show NATO’s commitment to the Baltic Region.

It involves 4,000 shipboard personnel, 50 ships and submarines and more than 50 aircraft from 14 different countries.