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Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Luke Willdigg and other Sailors assigned to the burial detail render honors.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 01, 2011) Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Luke Willdigg and other Sailors assigned to the burial detail render honors as Capt. Bruce H. Lindsey, commanding officer of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), holds the folded national ensign at the conclusion of a burial at sea ceremony for 20 former service members. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are underway on a western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans) File# 111201-N-DR144-552
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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