Onboard the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis), USS MONTEREY (CG 61), Sailor assigned to the cargo crew heave in on the fuel line during a Replenishment At Sea (RAS) with the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). The MONTEREY is part of the GEORGE WASHINGTON Carrier Strike Group (GWCSG) and is participating in Partnership of the Americas Exercise. The Exercise is a maritime training and readiness deployment of USN Forces with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security
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Base: USS Monterey (CG 61)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Michael D. Blackwell II, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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