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U.S. Navy sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) unload humanitarian relief supplies from a truck at a helicopter-landing zone on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Jan. 2, 2005. The supplies will be loaded aboard helicopters from Carrier Air Wing 2 for distribution to areas devastated by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean.

U.S. Navy sailors unload humanitarian relief supplies.

U.S. Navy sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) unload humanitarian relief supplies from a truck at a helicopter-landing zone on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Jan. 2, 2005. The supplies will be loaded aboard helicopters from Carrier Air Wing 2 for distribution to areas devastated by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean.

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