PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 15 2011) Sailors prepare for a burial-at-sea
ceremony for 44 former service members and dependents aboard the
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln
underway on deployment to the 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility
is changing homeports from Everett Wash. to Norfolk Va. following
deployment for a periodic refueling complex overhaul. (U.S. Navy photo
by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Gregory Harden/Released)