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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Lavette Gonzalez embraces her mother, Jaqueline Easley, Yeoman Storekeeper of the Military Sealift Command ship the USNS Lewis and Clark, in the air transfer office of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, under way in the Gulf Oman, Nov. 27, 2008. Gonzalez is an aviation maintenance administrationman.

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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Lavette Gonzalez embraces her mother, Jaqueline Easley, Yeoman Storekeeper of the Military Sealift Command ship the USNS Lewis and Clark, in the air transfer office of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, under way in the Gulf Oman, Nov. 27, 2008. Gonzalez is an aviation maintenance administrationman.

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