Onboard the US Navy (USN) KITTY HAWK CLASS: Aircraft Carrier, USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64), USN Aviation Machinist Mate AIRMAN (ADAN) Toroynne Harris, assigned to Fighter Squadron 2 (VF-2), carries several shackles of chains across the flight deck, while the ship is underway in the Persian Gulf enforcing United Nations (UN) Sanctions against Iraq, during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH
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Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Constellation (CV 64)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Brent M. Olheiser, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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