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Aviation Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Sidney Jones guides an F/A-18C Hornet.
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Pacific Ocean (Sep. 04, 2004) Aviation Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Sidney Jones of Enid, Okla., guides an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the "Dambusters" of Strike Fighter Squadron One Nine Five (VFA-195) for launch aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The Dambusters and the nine other squadrons and detachments that comprise Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) are conducting fly-offs from Kitty Hawk at the conclusion of its summer underway period. Kitty Hawk is currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), demonstrating power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Jason T. Poplin File# 040904-N-5821P-034
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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