Post side view of the US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer USS MITSCHER (DDG 57) steams alongside with another Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer in the background during SUMMER PULSE 2004 Exercise. SUMMER PULSE 2004 is the simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft Carrier Strike Groups (CSG), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat power across the globe, in five theatres with other US, allied, and coalition military forces
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Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Ryan O'Connor, Usn
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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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11/06/2004
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The U.S. National Archives
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