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U.S. Navy Disbursing Clerk Second Class Kimberly White, assigned aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), takes a swim during a Morale Welfare and Recreation-sponsored tour, Day Long Safari, near Jabal Ali, United Arab Emirates, on December 24, 2006. The Eisenhower and embarked Carrier Air Wing 7 are on a regularly scheduled deployment to the Persian Gulf area in support of Maritime Security Operations and Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Navy PHOTO by Mass Communication SPECIALIST Second Class Matthew D. Leistikow) (Released)
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Country: United Arab Emerites (UAE)
Scene Camera Operator: MC2 Matthew D. Leistikow, 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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