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Airman Takiya Minter, from Brooklyn, N.Y., installs the safety pin into a Mark 83 general-purpose practice bomb in a weapons magazine aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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Pacific Ocean (Aug. 10, 2004) Airman Takiya Minter, from Brooklyn, N.Y., installs the safety pin into a Mark 83 general-purpose practice bomb in a weapons magazine aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The pins ensure safe movement and loading of ordnance. Currently under way in the Seventh Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the world's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Patrick Hutchison File# 040810-N-9458H-028
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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