The guided missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86), foreground and USS Shiloh (CG 67), rear, sail in formation.
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Pacific Ocean (Jun. 09, 2005) The guided missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86), foreground and USS Shiloh (CG 67), rear, sail in formation during a passing exercise between the U.S. and Japanese naval forces. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is currently conducting readiness training in support of the Navy's Fleet Response Plan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Justin R. Blake File# 050609-N-5384B-012
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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