Master Chief Quartermaster Jonathan Myers teaches Midshipman 2nd Class Kathryn Schroedel how to use a sextant for celestial navigation.
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SURIGAO STRAIT (May. 28, 2011) Master Chief Quartermaster Jonathan Myers teaches Midshipman 2nd Class Kathryn Schroedel, an ROTC student completing her summer cruise, how to use a sextant for celestial navigation on the signal bridge as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Surigao Strait. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans) File# 110528-N-DR144-722
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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