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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maria Patterson, left, from El Paso, Texas, tests Interior Electrician Technican Fireman Randi Parker, from Elizabethtown, Ky., for the flu.

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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maria Patterson, left, from El Paso, Texas, tests Interior Electrician Technican Fireman Randi Parker, from Elizabethtown, Ky., for the flu.

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SAN DIEGO (Jan. 15, 2014) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maria Patterson, left, from El Paso, Texas, tests Interior Electrician Technican Fireman Randi Parker, from Elizabethtown, Ky., for the flu aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Reagan is moored and homeported at Naval Base Coronado. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy M. Black) File# 140115-N-AV746-074

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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