Fireman Billy Radford, from Rigby, Idaho, inspects the number three main condenser aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
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Pacific Ocean (Jun. 29, 2004) Fireman Billy Radford, from Rigby, Idaho, inspects the number three main condenser aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). The condenser was fouled with several hundred squid and octopi following a four-day port visit to Valparaiso, Chile. Condensers are used to take in water from the ocean and cool down the ships engines. Reagan is underway circumnavigating South America in transit to her new homeport of San Diego, Calif., while participating in exercises supporting Summer Pulse 2004. Summer Pulse 2004 is the simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat across the globe, in five theaters with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces. Summer Pulse is the Navys first deployment under its new Fleet Response Plan (FRP). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Konstandinos Goumenidis For more information go to: www.cffc.navy.mil/summerpulse04.htm File# 040629-N-8213G-008
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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