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Culinary Specialist 1st Class Jermaine Benton watches aircraft launch through high-powered binoculars from the signal bridge.

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Culinary Specialist 1st Class Jermaine Benton watches aircraft launch through high-powered binoculars from the signal bridge.

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Pacific Ocean (Aug. 09, 2005) Culinary Specialist 1st Class Jermaine Benton watches aircraft launch through high-powered binoculars from the signal bridge aboard the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group is participating in the third annual Joint Air and Sea Exercise (JASEX) with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps in the Western Pacific. JASEX focuses on integrated joint training proficiency in detecting, locating, tracking and engaging units at sea, in the air, and on land, in response to a range of mission areas. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Benjamin Dennis File# 050809-N-9389D-049

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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09/08/2005 - 09/08/2005
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Pacific Ocean
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