Air Traffic Controler 2nd Class Stephen Travis Jr., assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), is greeted by his family upon the carrier's arrival to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

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Air Traffic Controler 2nd Class Stephen Travis Jr., assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), is greeted by his family upon the carrier's arrival to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

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PEARL HARBOR (Apr. 21, 2013) Air Traffic Controler 2nd Class Stephen Travis Jr., assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), is greeted by his family upon the carrier's arrival to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is returning from an eight-month deployment conducting operations in the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy Photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Diana Quinlan) File# 130421-N-WF272-130

Carriers

Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.