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SOUTH CHINA SEA (Jul. 17, 2012) Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Cameron Jones, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), plays Amazing Grace during a memorial service in honor of Airman Apprentice Rafael Antonio Martinez, who passed away while the aircraft carrier was conducting a five-day port visit to Hong Kong. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka on May 26 to begin its 2012 patrol. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David A. Cox) File# 120717-N-KM939-056
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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