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A Landing Signalman Enlisted (LSE) and trainee salute the off going pilot of an SH-60F Seahawk assigned to the Eightballers of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight (HS-8).
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Pacific Ocean (Sep. 22, 2006) A Landing Signalman Enlisted (LSE) and trainee salute the off going pilot of an SH-60F Seahawk assigned to the Eightballers" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight (HS-8) during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). The John C. Stennis Strike Group (JCSSG) is currently underway conducting its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ron Reeves File# 060922-N-0684R-040
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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