Aliah Acosta-Mercado, a junior culinary student at the Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School, inspects Sgt. David Olson's cooking process during the Connecticut National Guard's inaugural cooking competition at Camp Nett, Niantic, Connecticut, April 28, 2023. This brand-new competition pit culinary specialists from around the Connecticut National Guard against one another as the capstone to their annual Military Operational Specialty training.