Keywords: US Navy 050301-N-0050T-108 Hundreds of friends and family gather on board North Island Naval Air Station, Calif., to welcome home their loved ones from a deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).jpg en San Diego Calif Mar 1 2005 - Hundreds of friends and family gather on board North Island Naval Air Station Calif to welcome home their loved ones from a deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 Lincoln and embarked Carrier Air Wing Two CVW-2 supported Operation Unified Assistance the humanitarian relief effort to aid the victims of the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia Lincoln pulled into San Diego to drop-off the Sailors and Marines assigned to CVW-2 and then make its transit up the coast to her homeport of Everett Wash U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 2nd Class Patricia R Totemeier RELEASED 2005-03-01 050301-N-0050T-108 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 22348 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 2nd Class Patricia R Totemeier PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 Naval ship arrivals to Naval Air Station North Island |