US Navy (USN) Aviation Machinist's Mate Third Class (AD3) Heather Fichel performs monthly maintenance on the fuselage of a USN F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter aboard USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The monthly maintenance plays a vital role in the operational readiness of all planes in the military. The LINCOLN and Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) are conducting combat operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
Summary
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Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Kittie Vandenbosch, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Fighter planes and military aircrafts.
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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