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NDIAN OCEAN (Sep. 03, 2008) Aviation Electrician's Mate Airman David Coley, from Rocky Mountain, N.C., assigned to the "Saberhawks" of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 47, carries chocks across the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) after assisting in the launch of an SH-60B Sea Hawk. Lincoln and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 are in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility on a scheduled seven-month deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans) File# 080903-N-7981E-122
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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