Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Ransford Bulley hula hoops with a child from Jinhae Hope Children Home during a community relations event.
Summary
CHANGWON CITY, Republic of Korea (Oct. 31, 2015) Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Ransford Bulley, from Accra, Ghana, from the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), hula hoops with a child from Jinhae Hope Children Home during a community relations event. Ronald Reagan is moored in Busan for a good will port visit. Ronald Reagan and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Burke) File# 151031-N-OI810-288
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.