Supplies are loaded on to one of four aircraft elevators during a replenishment at sea

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Supplies are loaded on to one of four aircraft elevators during a replenishment at sea

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At sea aboard USS Kitty Hawk Supplies are loaded onto one of four aircraft elevators during a replenishment at sea (RAS) aboard the ship. Kitty Hawk is the worlds only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier and operates out of Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Todd Frantom. File# 021116-N-1810F-020

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.