Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Group One practice rappelling in the ship�s hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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7th Fleet Area of Responsibility Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Group One practice rappelling in the ships hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Currently under way in the 7th Fleet AOR, Kitty Hawk is Americas oldest active warship, commissioned in 1961, and is the U.S. Navys only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman, Bo J. Flannigan. File# 040222-N-5781F-003
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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