Sailors on board USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) watch as an MH-60S Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two Five (HCS-25) transfers supplies over from the Military Sealift Command (MSC) combat stores ship USNS San Jose (T-AFS 7).
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Philippine Sea (Nov. 30, 2006) Sailors on board USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) watch as an MH-60S Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two Five (HCS-25) transfers supplies over from the Military Sealift Command (MSC) combat stores ship USNS San Jose (T-AFS 7). The Kitty Hawk, operating out of Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, is currently deployed in the Philippine Sea on a regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jarod Hodge File# 061130-N-8591H-051
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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