A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft (left) and a USN F/A-18C Hornet aircraft, both assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (VFA-11), aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) (not shown), fly in formation during a mission. The WASHINGTON and its Carrier Strike Group are currently underway in the Atlantic Ocean, participating in the Partnership of the Americas, a maritime training and readiness deployment with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Commands (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security

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A-18C Hornet aircraft, both assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (VFA-11), aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) (not shown), fly in formation during a mission. The WASHINGTON and its Carrier Strike Group are currently underway in the Atlantic Ocean, participating in the Partnership of the Americas, a maritime training and readiness deployment with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Commands (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security

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Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Joshua Olson, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.