Tugboats guide the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) as it gets underway from Pier 12 onboard Naval Station (NS) Norfolk, Virginia (VA). The EISENHOWER completed a three-year refueling and complex overhaul in March and this will be her first underway period since completing the repairs
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Base: Naval Station, Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Laura A. Moore, 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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