Aviation Boatswain's Mate 1ST Class Steven Mays (Right), 34, US Navy team captain, laughs while wrestling with SPECIALIST Mujaahid Maynard (Left), 29, US Army training partner for Mays. Both are from the US Greco-Roman wrestling team and are participating in a pre-Olympic practice in Canberra, Australia, on September 14th, 2000. Mays serves on the Aircraft Carrier USS John F. Kennedy out of Pensacola, Florida. Maynard serves at Fort Carson, Colorado in the World Class Athlete Program

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.