A bow on view of the US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier, USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67), showing Sailors manning the rails, being assisted by a commercial tugboat, as the ship arrives at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida (FL), for a four-day port visit following the completion of a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMTUEX) in the Gulf of Mexico. COMPTUEX is an intermediate level exercise designed to forge the strike group into a cohesive fighting team and is a critical step in pre-deployment training
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Base: Pensacola
State: Florida (FL)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Larry Kachelhofer, CIV
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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