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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Flight deck crewmen are enveloped by steam as they ready an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft for a catapult launch from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as the ship operates in the Sea of Japan on March 30, 2006. The Super Hornet is attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 151.

Flight deck crewmen are enveloped by steam.

Flight deck crewmen are enveloped by steam as they ready an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft for a catapult launch from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as the ship operates in the Sea of Japan on March 30, 2006. The Super Hornet is attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 151.

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