Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Joshua Curlee, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), stands a security watch.

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Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Joshua Curlee, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), stands a security watch.

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Feb. 26, 2014) Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Joshua Curlee, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), stands a security watch in conjunction with a Navy-wide Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield exercise. Abraham Lincoln is undergoing a refueling complex overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Danian Douglas) File# 140226-N-XP477-044

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.