Norfolk Va. – The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln passes Thimble Shoals Lighthouse, Jan. 25, on the way to the Atlantic Ocean for her Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/staff) 
Airman Aorian Johnson, plane captain for a Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 25 awaits the pilot during the carrier Abraham Lincoln’s Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
Flight deck crews position aircraft at the bow catapults for launch during the carrier Abraham Lincoln’s Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
A Super Hornet launches off the angle deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during her Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
The reflection of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is caught in an E-2C Hawkeye’s cockpit window. (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
A Super Hornet catches the wire on board the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during her Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
A Super Hornet fighter is waved off from landing on board the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during her Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Samuel Rodriguez, right, and Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Andrea Savcedo man the helm of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during its Composite Unit Training Exercise. (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
A Super Hornet is waved off from landing on board the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during her Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
Flight deck crews work on parked Super Hornets during the carrier Abraham Lincoln’s Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff) 
A flight deck crewman checks the launching gear of a Super Hornet fighter in preparation for a catapult launch. (Mark D. Faram/staff) 
A Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopter lands after a stint standing guard off the the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during her Composite Unit Training Exercise (Mark D. Faram/Staff)
