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The USN Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class (Flight I): Guided Missile Destroyer (Aegis) USS STOUT (DDG 55) (foreground) sails in trail formation behind the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), while underway in the Caribbean Sea, participating in the Partnership of the Americas Exercise, a maritime training and readiness deployment conducted with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security. A USN MH-60S Seahawk helicopter flies in the background
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Country: Caribbean Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Michael D. Blackwell II, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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29/04/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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