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Sailors assigned to the Air Department aboard the dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) sit in shade made by Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters on the flight deck during an underway replenishment.
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Indian Ocean (Jan. 14, 2005) Sailors assigned to the Air Department aboard the dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) sit in shade made by Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters on the flight deck during an underway replenishment. Helicopters and Sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Carrier Strike Group are supporting Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian operation effort in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class M. Jeremie Yoder File# 050114-N-6074Y-099
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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