US Navy Aviation Machinist Mate AIRMAN (ADAN) Timothy Robbinson is carried away on a stretcher by crewmen during a mass casualty training exercise on the flight deck of the conventional aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62). The INDEPENDENCE and its embarked Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) are forward deployed to the Persian Gulf to enforce UN sanctions against Iraq. Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 21 February 1998
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Independence (CV 62)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Chris Howell, 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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