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Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class Adam Berdard performs start-up checks
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Western Pacific Ocean (Oct. 13, 2003) Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class Adam Berdard from San Diego, Calif., assigned to the Wallbangers of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One One Seven (VAW-117) performs start-up checks on an E-2C Hawkeye on the flight deck of USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are on deployment to the Western Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Maebel Tinoko. File# 031013-N-2143T-004
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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