US Navy (USN) Sailors from the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) man the rails as the ship returns to her homeport at naval Station (NS) Norfolk, Virginia (VA). The WASHINGTON returned after participating in a two-month deployment during the Partnership of the Americas Exercise, a maritime training and readiness exercise of US Naval Forces with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security
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Base: Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Roberto Taylor, 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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