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Members of a crash and salvage crew stand by a P-16 shipboard firefighting and rescue truck aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) as the vessel is made ready to deploy to the Mediterranean in support of Operation Desert Shield

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Members of a crash and salvage crew stand by a P-16 shipboard firefighting and rescue truck aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) as the vessel is made ready to deploy to the Mediterranean in support of Operation Desert Shield

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Paul A. Hawthorne

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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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13/08/1990
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