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Deck Department personnel wait for the Military Sealift Command (MSC) munitions ship USNS Kilauea (T-AE 26)
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Pacific Ocean (Mar. 24, 2003) Deck Department personnel wait for the Military Sealift Command (MSC) munitions ship USNS Kilauea (T-AE 26) to come alongside the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) to conduct a scheduled replenishment at sea (RAS). Nimitz and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are deployed conducting missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Yesenia Rosas. File# 030324-N-2385R-004
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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