040702-N-8213G-008 USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), July 02, 2004 – On board USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Handling 1st Class Dennis Parker, of Oswego, NY, gets the thumbs up from the safety checkers as he prepares to launch an E-2C “Hawkeye” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron one-seventeen (VAW 117) “Wallbangers”. The Navy’s newest aircraft carrier currently is in route to its new homeport of San Diego. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Konstandinos Goumenidis.