Flight deck personnel participate in a barricade drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

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Flight deck personnel participate in a barricade drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

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GULF OF OMAN (Feb. 16, 2009) Flight deck personnel participate in a barricade drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8 are operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder) File# 090216-N-7571S-003

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.