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US Navy (USN) Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class (AD2) Augusto Baez, assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Seven (HS-7), from US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) plays with two local children on a swing set at the Prince William Alexander School for Special Needs Day Care playground, in Phillipsburg, Netherlands Antilles (ANT). The USN Sailors are currently participating in Partnership of the Americas, a maritime training and readiness deployment of the US Naval Forces with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security
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Base: Phillipsburg
Country: Netherlands Antilles (ANT)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Najah M. Stanford, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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