Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class John Torres plants Japanese Iris during a volunteer project to refurbish Clayton Playground and Community Park.
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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (Sep. 19, 2015) Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class John Torres, from Port Orchard, Wash., assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), plants Japanese Iris during a volunteer project to refurbish Clayton Playground and Community Park. The park is named after Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Michael Joseph Clayton, who assisted his shipmates in building the park and died in a 1971 automobile accident while the park was still under construction. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cory Asato) File# 150919-N-OO032-074
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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