Quartermaster Seaman Matthew Freeman plots the ships movement during a general quarters exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).
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NEWPORT NEWS (Aug. 20, 2013) Quartermaster Seaman Matthew Freeman plots the ships movement during a general quarters exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Practicing general quarters prepares the crew for combat situations and other shipboard emergencies in an operational environment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Heath Zeigler) File# 130820-N-JC800-080
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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