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An F/A-18F Super Hornet is on ready alert at dusk as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Indian Ocean, Sept. 4, 2008. The USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility operating in the western Pacific and Indian oceans.

DUSK ALERT

An F/A-18F Super Hornet is on ready alert at dusk as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Indian Ocean, Sept. 4, 2008. The USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility operating in the western Pacific and Indian oceans.

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