US Navy (USN) Weapons Department personnel move palettes of ordnance on board the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during a weapons on-load conducted with Military Sealift Command (MSC) Kilauea Class Ammunition Ship USNS FLINT (T-AE 32). Weapons Department Sailors are responsible for the handling, storage and maintenance of all live ordnance and weapons on board the KITTY HAWK

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US Navy (USN) Weapons Department personnel move palettes of ordnance on board the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during a weapons on-load conducted with Military Sealift Command (MSC) Kilauea Class Ammunition Ship USNS FLINT (T-AE 32). Weapons Department Sailors are responsible for the handling, storage and maintenance of all live ordnance and weapons on board the KITTY HAWK

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Patrick Heil, USN

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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.