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An Aviation Boatswain's Mate stands ready to engage the jet-blast deflector (JBD) during flight operations aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
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The Arabian Gulf (Mar. 23, 2003) An Aviation Boatswain's Mate stands ready to engage the jet-blast deflector (JBD) during flight operations aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Philip A McDaniel. File# 030323-N-9593M-024
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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