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Friends and family greet Sailors stationed aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) upon returning to her home port of Naval Station Norfolk .
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Norfolk, Va. (Mar. 11, 2006) Friends and family greet Sailors stationed aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) upon returning to her home port of Naval Station Norfolk after a six-month combat deployment in support of maritime security operations and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd class Elizabeth R. Falor File# 060311-N-7088F-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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