An Aviation Boatswain's Mate stands the Deck Edge Safety watch, ensuring that the flight deck is all clear for an F/A-18 Hornet preparing to launch from one of four steam powered catapults aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
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Aboard USS Harry S. Truman An Aviation Boatswain's Mate stands the Deck Edge Safety watch, ensuring that the flight deck is all clear for an F/A-18 Hornet preparing to launch from one of four steam powered catapults aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Truman Carrier Strike Group is returning from their deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Danny Ewing Jr. File# 030522-N-4953E-006
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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