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Airman Apprentice Grant Griffith, from Seattle, Wash., assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), builds a wall .
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San Pasqual, Calif. (Jun. 23, 2004) Airman Apprentice Grant Griffith, from Seattle, Wash., assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), builds a wall to help the non-profit group Habitat for Humanity build homes for families who lost their houses in the 2003 Southern California Wildfires. The ship is currently in transit around South America and is scheduled to arrive in her new homeport of San Diego, Calif., in late July. Airman Griffith is part of an advance team of Reagan personnel making the necessary preparations for the ships arrival. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 2nd Class Katrina L. Beeler File# 040623-N-8252B-067
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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