Engineman Fireman Recruit Logan Cowling, No.1 nozzleman, participates in firefighting training aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), during a class bravo, or fuel, fire drill
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Nov. 15, 2013) Engineman Fireman Recruit Logan Cowling, No.1 nozzleman, participates in firefighting training aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), during a class bravo, or fuel, fire drill. Abraham Lincoln is undergoing a refueling complex overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Danian Douglas) File# 131115-N-XP477-118
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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