Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) conduct a foreign object and debris walkdown on the flight deck.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Aug. 19, 2013) Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) conduct a foreign object and debris walkdown on the flight deck. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting a fast cruise as it nears completion of a refueling and complex overhaul at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Bounome Chanphouang) File# 130819-N-BD333-326
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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