080327-N-7981E-695 PACIFIC OCEAN (March 27, 2008) An E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the "Sun Kings" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 116 approaches the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) for a landing off the
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