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Aviation Ordnancemen move ordnance out of a weapons elevator to a bomb handling assembly area

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Aviation Ordnancemen move ordnance out of a weapons elevator to a bomb handling assembly area

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The Arabian Gulf (Mar. 20, 2003) Aviation Ordnancemen assigned to weapons department, G-3 division aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV 64) move ordnance out of a weapons elevator to a bomb handling assembly area. Constellation and Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are deployed conducting missions in support of Operation Iraq Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Prince A Hughes III. File# 030320-N-1397H-006

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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20/03/2003 - 20/03/2003
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