Line handlers hold the phone and distance line on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8).
Summary
U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (Jun. 03, 2015) Line handlers hold the phone and distance line on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8). Theodore Roosevelt is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys) File# 150603-N-GR120-093
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.