Aviation Boatswain�s Mate 1st Class Floyd Scamahorn prepares to move an aircraft on the flight aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as the Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) maneuvers nearby.
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Mediterranean Sea (Jun. 15, 2004) Aviation Boatswains Mate 1st Class Floyd Scamahorn prepares to move an aircraft on the flight aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as the Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) maneuvers nearby. Truman is one of seven aircraft carriers involved in the Summer Pulse 2004. Summer Pulse 2004 is the simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat power across the globe, in five theaters with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces. Summer Pulse is the Navy's first deployment under its new Fleet Response Plan (FRP). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Danny Ewing Jr. For more information go to: www.cffc.navy.mil/summerpulse04.htm File# 040615-N-4953E-004
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.