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Sailors assigned to Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) wave to friends and family as the ship moors pierside Naval Station Pearl Harbor upon completion of a deployment to the Western Pacific.
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Sep. 04, 2007) Sailors assigned to Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) wave to friends and family as the ship moors pierside Naval Station Pearl Harbor upon completion of a deployment to the Western Pacific. Lake Erie departed her homeport of Pearl Harbor in May and conducted missions in the 7th Fleet area of operation, participated in Exercise Talisman Saber 2007 and performed escort duties for USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James E. Foehl File# 070904-N-4965F-021
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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