Sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and embarked Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2), assist a refugee off an SH-60B Seahawk en route to the U.S. Medical tent for treatment in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia (Jan. 03, 2005) Sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and embarked Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2), assist a refugee off an SH-60B Seahawk en route to the U.S. Medical tent for treatment in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Lincoln and CVW-2 are conducting humanitarian operations 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 2nd Class Seth C. Peterson File# 050103-N-0057P-454
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.
![US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Jody Weinstein, Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2), helps an injured Indonesian woman into a medical evacuation vehicle after she was transported from a coastal village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Medical teams from USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) [not shown], Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) set-up a triage site located on Sultan Iskandar Muda Air Force Base (AFB), in Banda Aceh, Sumatra](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn10/L3Bob3RvLzIwMDUvMDEvMDMvdXMtbmF2eS11c24tbGlldXRlbmFudC1sdC1qb2R5LXdlaW5zdGVpbi1jYXJyaWVyLWFpci13aW5nLTItY3Z3LTItaGVscHMtYW4tMTk4NTlhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Jody Weinstein, Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2), helps an injured Indonesian woman into a medical evacuation vehicle after she was transported from a coastal village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Medical teams from USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) [not shown], Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) set-up a triage site located on Sultan Iskandar Muda Air Force Base (AFB), in Banda Aceh, Sumatra")
