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Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Robert Jackson, foreground, and Fire Controlman 2nd Class Joshua Stoddard-Herriman clean the turret of the MK-45 5-in./54-cal. lightweight gun.

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Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Robert Jackson, foreground, and Fire Controlman 2nd Class Joshua Stoddard-Herriman clean the turret of the MK-45 5-in./54-cal. lightweight gun.

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Persian Gulf (Feb. 07, 2005) Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Robert Jackson, foreground, and Fire Controlman 2nd Class Joshua Stoddard-Herriman clean the turret of the MK-45 5-in./54-cal. lightweight gun while cleaning the gun system on the forecastle aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) after an early-morning test fire. Mason is conducting operations in the Persian Gulf as a part of Destroyer Squadron Two Six (DESRON26) and the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Carrier Strike Group. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and CVW-3 are on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Kristopher Wilson File# 050207-N-5345W-045

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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07/02/2005 - 07/02/2005
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Persian Gulf
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