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Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Joseph Pinola, from Sacramento, Calif., positions aircraft models
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INDIAN OCEAN (Sep. 14, 2011) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Joseph Pinola, from Sacramento, Calif., positions aircraft models on the Ouija board in hangar deck control aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is on a western Pacific Ocean and Arabian Gulf deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Aviation Maintenance Administrationman 3rd Class Jose Jaen) File# 110914-N-ZZ999-080
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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