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Ship�s Serviceman Seaman Jessica Hall, assigned to Supply Department, S-3 Division, places a plastic cover over a uniform shirt after pressing it.
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Persian Gulf (Mar. 31, 2005) Ships Serviceman Seaman Jessica Hall, assigned to Supply Department, S-3 Division, places a plastic cover over a uniform shirt after pressing it aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is conducting operations in support of multi-national forces in Iraq and maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf. Carl Vinson will end its deployment with a homeport shift to Norfolk, Va., and will conduct a three-year refuel and complex overhaul. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Refugio Carrillo File# 050331-N-9446C-026
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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