US Navy (USN) Aviation Warfare Systems Operator First Class (AW1) Benjamin Petzoldt from the USN Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4 (HSL-4) inspects a USN SH-60F Seahawk helicopter on the flight deck of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) during operations in the Pacific Ocean. The REAGAN and USN Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) are completing their six-month regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and Maritime Security Operations (MSO)
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Base: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)
Scene Camera Operator: MC2 Aaron Burden, 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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Date
01/07/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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