Similar

Petty Officer 2nd Class Wesley Evans, Naval air crewman,

One of Air department's landing signal enlisted Sailor's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Bendigo Fallon, Naval crewmen,

160223-N-YG354-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 23, 2016) Lance

U.S. Air Force Reservist Senior Airman Zach Miller,

U.S. Army soldiers unload a patient from a UH-60M Black

Sailors organize cargo hooks. (CVN-74)

description

Summary

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jul. 13, 2012) Sailors organize cargo hooks while an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the Eightballers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8 delivers supplies on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during a replenishment at sea. John C. Stennis is conducting sustainment exercises off the coast of California designed to maintain mission readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth Abbate) File# 120713-N-OY799-022

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.