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keeping a hold on phone and distance wires on the ship�s flight deck during an underway replenishment
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At sea aboard USS Harry S. Truman Boatswains Mates keep a hold on phone and distance wires on the ships flight deck during an underway replenishment (UNREP) with the Military Sealift Command auxiliary combat stores ship USNS Spica (T-AFS 9). Phone and distance wires are used for sound powered phone communications between the two ships and for gauging distance. Underway Replenishment is the method by which provisions, ammunition and fuel are transferred from one ship to another at sea. The technique enables a fleet or naval formation to remain at sea for prolonged periods of time. Harry S. Truman is on a regularly scheduled deployment, conducting missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Danny Ewing Jr. File# 021218-N-4953E-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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