Sailors assigned to the Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and Commander, Task Force 70, play catch with children during a community relations event at Yokosuka's Shunku Gakuen Orphanage.
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YOKOSUKA, Japan (Mar. 27, 2019) Sailors assigned to the Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and Commander, Task Force 70, play catch with children during a community relations event at Yokosuka's Shunku Gakuen Orphanage. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Gabriel Martinez) File# 190327-N-ZF088-0022
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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