An unidentified Aviation Boatswains Mate (AB) Aircraft Handler glares across the flight deck of the US Navy (USN) NIMITZ CLASS: Aircraft Carrier, USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) as the ship is on station in the Arabian Sea during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Country: Arabian Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Aw/Sw) Greg Messier, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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.
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