A Sailor mows brush in a vacant lot during a community service project.
Summary
BREMERTON, Wash. (Aug. 18, 2012) Aviation Machinist's Mate 1st Class Ashley Tuazon, from San Diego, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), mows brush in a vacant lot during a community service project at the Lincoln Avenue Bible Church. Nine Ronald Reagan Sailors participated in the project, which was aimed at renovating several church-owned homes rented to local veterans in need of low cost housing while attending college. Ronald Reagan is homeported in Bremerton, Wash., while undergoing a docked planned incremental availability maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Activity. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy M. Black) File# 120818-N-AV746-153
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.