Machinery Repairman Fireman Recruit Justin Arostegui uses a lathe to machine a bushing aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 29, 2018) Machinery Repairman Fireman Recruit Justin Arostegui uses a lathe to machine a bushing aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is operating in the western Pacific as part of a scheduled deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michele Fink) File# 180329-N-IU965-0007
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.