Aviation Ordnancemen prepare to load aircraft with various ordnance on the ship's flight deck in preparation for upcoming combat missions
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At sea aboard USS Abraham Lincoln Aviation Ordnancemen prepare to load aircraft with various ordnance on the ship's flight deck in preparation for upcoming combat missions. Abraham Lincoln and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) on a regularly scheduled six-month deployment and are conducting combat missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Southern Watch. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Geanine I. Ortez. File# 021114-N-4748O-001
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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