Several tugboats assist the US Navy (USN) Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) to the Navy Supply Depot pier during a port call to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii (HI). The USN Amphibious Assault Ship USS TARAWA (LHA 1) is immediately in the background and a USN Whidbey Island LSD 41 Class Dock Landing Ship is in the next pier. The STENNIS is visiting Pearl Harbor to take part in Rim of the Pacific (AC) 2004. AC is the largest international maritime exercise in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. This years exercise includes seven participating nations: Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States....
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[Complete] Scene Caption: Several tugboats assist the US Navy (USN) Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) to the Navy Supply Depot pier during a port call to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii (HI). The USN Amphibious Assault Ship USS TARAWA (LHA 1) is immediately in the background and a USN Whidbey Island LSD 41 Class Dock Landing Ship is in the next pier. The STENNIS is visiting Pearl Harbor to take part in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2004. RIMPAC is the largest international maritime exercise in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. This years exercise includes seven participating nations: Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. RIMPAC is intended to enhance the tactical proficiency of participating units in a wide array of combined operations at sea, while enhancing stability in the Pacific Rim region.
Base: Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor
State: Hawaii (HI)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Randi R. Brown, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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