US Navy Commander Laurier McCravy (right) discusses the results of an oral exam with one of her patients. CDR McCravy is an oral surgeon on board the US Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) and was the first woman assigned permanently to the crew. Commanded by captain Larry Baucom (not shown), Carl Vinson is deployed to the Persian Gulf enforcing the extended "No Fly Zone" over Iraq in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
Scene Camera Operator: Pha Christopher Hollaway, 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.