A flight deck crewman signals the pilots of an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter as crewmen chock the wheels of another Seahawk aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62). The INDEPENDENCE is conducting post-Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) operations at Guantanamo Bay
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Base: USS Independence (CV 62)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAR Jeffery Morgan
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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