The long-deployed USS Lincoln returns home to San Diego Bay
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Abel Ramirez, 20, was glad to have that all behind him. He walked off the carrier with a big grin, overjoyed that his first deployment was over.

"It feels amazing," he said while headed out to search for his parents who traveled from Texas. "There was a certain point when I never thought I would come off."

Cassity Garduque, 14, waved as her mom in her sailor uniform frantically waved back from the top deck after the ship docked at the pier.

"It feels really overwhelming," she said about being seeing her mom again. "She missed most of my seventh grade and my birthday."

She added that she's happy her mom won't be eating ramen almost every day and can celebrate with her now.

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