Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) Airman Recruit Karey Schafer, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), uses an inside diameter gauge to take measurements.
Summary
BREMERTON, Wash. (Jul. 29, 2013) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) Airman Recruit Karey Schafer, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), uses an inside diameter gauge to take measurements of a cylinder that was removed from catapult one on the flight deck. John C. Stennis is undergoing a docking planned incremental availability maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jordan Crouch) File# 130729-N-IO414-096
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.