Machinery Repairman 3rd Class Anthony Gerhardt creates a guide pin for support equipment using a lathe in the machine shop aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).
Summary
ARABIAN SEA (Apr. 13, 2007) Machinery Repairman 3rd Class Anthony Gerhardt creates a guide pin for support equipment using a lathe in the machine shop aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is on deployment in support of Maritime Security Operations (MSO). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman John Wagner File# 070413-N-3038W-042
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.