US Navy (USN) HH-60H Seahawk helicopters, Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 2 (HS-2), Golden Falcons, and SH-60B Seahawk helicopters, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light Squadron 47 (HSL-47), Saberhawks, Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI), California (CA), depart the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) en route to Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. The helicopters are transporting supplies, disaster relief teams and supporting humanitarian airlifts to Tsunami stricken coastal regions. The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand in support of Tsunami Humanitarian Relief Efforts

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Sw) Seth C. Peterson, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.