Sailors assigned to the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba supply department load disaster relief supplies on an MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Jan. 18, 2010) Sailors assigned to the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba supply department load disaster relief supplies on an MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter assigned to the Vanguard of Mine Counter Measures Squadron (HM) 14 at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba airfield. The Vanguard transported supplies and personnel to the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) to support Operation Unified Response after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake cause severe damage near Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Bill Mesta) File# 100118-N-8241M-016
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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