Aviation Support Equipment Technician 1st Class Andrew Couillard prepares to render honors to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy hospital ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) in San Diego.

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Aviation Support Equipment Technician 1st Class Andrew Couillard prepares to render honors to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy hospital ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) in San Diego.

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SAN DIEGO (Nov. 03, 2015) Aviation Support Equipment Technician 1st Class Andrew Couillard, assigned to aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), prepares to render honors to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy hospital ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) in San Diego. Carl Vinson is undergoing a Chief of Naval Operations Planned Incremental Availability maintenance period in its homeport of San Diego, California. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lee) File# 151103-N-LY160-027

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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.