170408-N-WS581-083 ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 8, 2017) Sailors remove the propeller hoist from an E2-C Hawkeye assigned to the Screwtops of Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 123 in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike). Ike and its carrier strike group are underway participating in a sustainment exercise designed to maintain deployment readiness as part of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP).

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