A Marine is issued a shotgun during a security alert exercise aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). The ROOSEVELT is undergoing readiness testing during post-commissioning sea trails
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Guantanamo Bay
Country: Cuba (CUB)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Clarence F. Arnold
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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marine
shotgun
security
exercise
aircraft
uss
theodore
roosevelt
aircraft carrier uss theodore roosevelt
cvn
readiness
sea
trails
nuclear powered
aircraft carrier
nuclear powered aircraft carrier
guantanamo bay naval base
high resolution
sea trails
guantanamo bay
ph 2 clarence
us navy ships
us navy
us national archives
Date
13/01/1987
in collections
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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