USS Kitty Hawk leaves for routine training
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Command Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan (Oct. 25, 2002) Tugboats assigned to Fleet Activities Yokosuka assist the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) in getting underway for a scheduled sea period to conduct routine training. Kitty Hawk is the Navys only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier and operates out of Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class David A. Levy. File# 021025-N-6811L-008
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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