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Lt. Cmdr. David Bynum, a Navy chaplain aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68), passes out happy face sponge balls to the students of CSI High School for the Deaf during a community relations visit.
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CHENNAI, India (Jul. 04, 2007) Lt. Cmdr. David Bynum, a Navy chaplain aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68), passes out happy face sponge balls to the students of CSI High School for the Deaf during a community relations visit. Nimitz is the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to visit India. Nimitz and embarked Carrier Air Wing 11 are operating in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman John Scorza File# 070704-N-4420S-123
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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