Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Jones places a drawer from a personal storage locker on top of a pile of lockers and berthing racks being prepared for removal aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

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Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Jones places a drawer from a personal storage locker on top of a pile of lockers and berthing racks being prepared for removal aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

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Newport News, Va. (Mar. 19, 2006) Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Jones places a drawer from a personal storage locker on top of a pile of lockers and berthing racks being prepared for removal aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Jones is assigned to Vinsons habitation team, responsible for more than 100 berthing compartments undergoing various levels of repairs or overhaul. The Carl Vinson is currently undergoing its scheduled refueling complex overhaul (RCOH) at Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard. The RCOH is an extensive yard period all Nimitz-class aircraft carriers go through near the mid-point of their 50-year life cycle. During RCOH Carl Vinsons nuclear fuel will be replenished and the ships services and infrastructure will be upgraded for the next 25 years service. U.S. Navy Photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Matthew Todhunter File# 060319-N-0380T-002

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.