Logistics Specialist Seaman Apprentice Jeremy Bolling, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), adjusts the American flag as it flies at half-mast.
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SAN DIEGO (Jul. 22, 2015) Logistics Specialist Seaman Apprentice Jeremy Bolling, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), adjusts the American flag as it flies at half-mast in remembrance of the service members killed last week in a shooting in Chattanooga, Tenn. Carl Vinson is pierside in it's homeport of San Diego, Calif. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Samantha P. Montenegro) File# 150722-N-RM440-016
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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