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Personnel Specialist Seaman Myles Lamiel prepares to man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as the ship departs its homeport of San Diego.

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Personnel Specialist Seaman Myles Lamiel prepares to man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as the ship departs its homeport of San Diego.

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SAN DIEGO (Jan. 05, 2017) Personnel Specialist Seaman Myles Lamiel prepares to man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as the ship departs its homeport of San Diego. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will report to U.S. 3rd Fleet, headquartered in San Diego, while deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of 3rd Fleet into the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean M. Castellano) File# 170105-N-BL637-019

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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