A US Navy (USN) Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Bill Koyama, F/A-18C Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft Pilot, Strike Fighter Squadron One Nine Two (VFA-192, Golden Dragons), Carrier Air Wing (CVW-5), embarked aboard the Kitty hawk Class Aircraft Carrier, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), prepares for a catapult launch to participate in Exercise Keen Sword 2003, a regularly scheduled joint and bi-lateral training exercise between US military and Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) units to train and evaluate wartime functions and cooperation in the Pacific
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Ted Banks, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Fighter planes and military aircrafts.
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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