MAJ Steve "Lux" Luxion gets suited up for a Tomcat mission with the help of PR3 Joanne Bove, a Navy parachute rigger. MAJ Luxion, an Air Force exchange officer with the Navy, flies backseat in the F-14 Tomcat as a Radar Intercept Officer during his sea tour. They are aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), a Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine April 1997

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.