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Aviation Ordnanceman assembles a 500-pound GBU-12 bomb
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At sea aboard USS Abraham Lincoln An Aviation Ordnanceman assembles a guided bomb unit-12 (GBU-12) for a 500-pound general purpose warhead in one of the ship's weapon magazines. The operator illuminates a target with a laser designator and then the munition guides to a spot of laser energy reflected from the target. Lincoln and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are conducting flight operations and carrier qualifications in the Seventh Fleet Area of Responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Bernardo Fuller. File# 030129-N-5362F-001
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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