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Caption:
Arabian Gulf (Apr. 7, 2003) -- Aviation Ordnancemen aboard USS Abraham
Lincoln (CVN 72) connect a sling load loop pole to an MH-60S Knighthawk
assigned to the "Providers" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five
(HC-5) during a vertical replenishment with USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
Lincoln and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are on
deployment operating with coalition forces in support of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national
coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S.
Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Philip A. McDaniel.
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