On board the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WAHINGTON (CVN 73). US Navy crew members work on F/A-18C Hornets, from Carrier Air Wing One. The GEORGE WASHINGTON Battle Group and her embarked air wing departed their regularly scheduled deployment in the Mediterranean to provide added forward presence in the Persina Gulf region, following Iraqs refusal to comply with UN weapons inspections. Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 20 November 1997
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Subject Operation/Series: SOTHERN WATCH
Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Johnnie Robbins, USN
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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