Navy Airman Jason Rickards adjusts some equipment in the cockpit of an F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as the aircraft carrier operates in the South China Sea on April 24, 2006. Rickards is a Navy aviation structural mechanic equipment assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 137, deployed aboard the Lincoln from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.

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