A Flight Deck Director guides an F-14D Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron Three One (VF-31) onto catapult one for launch from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). VF-31 and other squadrons of Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are flying combat missions over southern Iraq in support of Operations Southern Watch and Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Philip A. McDaniel.