Flight deck personnel of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) standby as U.S. soldiers of the 75th Special Forces Group (Airborne) prepare to embark in U.S. Air Force MH-53J combat search and rescue helicopters during Fleet Exercise 2-94
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Subject Operation/Series: 34366
Base: USS George Washington @@(Cvn 73)
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: JOC Gregg L. Snaza
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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