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Heads lowered in prayer, fifty-two of the Navy's newest CHIEF PETTY Officers go through their pinning ceremony on board the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), in Norfolk, Virginia

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Heads lowered in prayer, fifty-two of the Navy's newest CHIEF PETTY Officers go through their pinning ceremony on board the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), in Norfolk, Virginia

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Base: Uss George Washington (CVN 73)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 J. Scott Campbell, USN

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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15/09/2000
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The U.S. National Archives
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