Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Abbas Syed of Dallas, Texas, guides a C-2A Greyhound launch bar into a catapult shuttle.
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Pacific Ocean (Jul. 22, 2004) Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Abbas Syed of Dallas, Texas, guides a C-2A Greyhound launch bar into a catapult shuttle, prior to launch of the aircraft from USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Greyhounds are the principle aircraft used for COD (carrier on-board delivery) of personnel and supplies. Kitty Hawk is one of seven carrier strike groups (CSGs) involved in Summer Pulse 2004. Summer Pulse 2004 is the deployment of seven carrier strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat capability across the globe, in five theaters with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces. Summer Pulse is the Navys first deployment under its new Fleet Response Plan (FRP). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Theron J. Godbold For more information go to: http://www.cffc.navy.mil/summerpulse04.htm File# 040722-N-5464G-080
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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