A 2012 West Hall High School graduate and Oakwood native is serving on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, one of the world’s largest warships. Fireman Alissa Marin is an engineman aboard the Norfolk-based ship, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and one of only 10 operational aircraft carriers in the Navy. The carrier is longer than three football fields, at nearly 1,100 feet long, is 252 feet wide and weighs more than 100,000 tons.