Boatswain's Mate Seaman Charlesa Anderson discusses signals to give to the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200).
Summary
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 21, 2010) Boatswain's Mate Seaman Charlesa Anderson discusses signals to give to the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200) during a replenishment at sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are on a deployment to the U.S. 7th and U.S. 5th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Travis K. Mendoza) File# 101221-N-2055M-211
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.