A US Navy (USN) flight deck leading CHIEF PETTY Officer (CPO) directs a USN F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft to catapult four as final checkers and catapult crews prepare the plane for launch on board the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The VFA-115 embarked with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW 14) on board the LINCOLN and are conducting combat operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
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Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Philip A. Mcdaniel, 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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