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Caption:
Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif. (May 2, 2003) --
Sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails as the ship
pulls into NAS North Island to a cheering crowd of family and friends
during their port visit to off-load the ship's Air Wing. Lincoln
and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are returning from
a 10-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation
Enduring Freedom and 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 Juan E. Diaz. (RELEASED)
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