Onboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN-74), Aviation Ordnanceman Third Class Dennis Smith from VA-143, loads an Nitro bottle receiver that cools the missile's heat seeking head. The USS JOHN C. STENNIS is deployed in the Persian Gulf in support of the Southwest Asia build-up
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Base: USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 (Aw) Gloria J. Barry, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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.
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Date
17/03/1998
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