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Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class supervises the loading of the M61-A1 20 mm. gatling gun
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At sea aboard USS Abraham Lincoln Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Joshua Adkins from Trenton, Ohio, supervises the loading of the M61-A1 20 mm. gatling gun on an F-14D Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron Thirty One (VF-31). The M61-A1 Gatling gun is the main defensive weapon for U.S. Navy aircraft. Abraham Lincoln, VF-31, and Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are on a regularly scheduled six-month deployment conducting combat missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Southern Watch. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Philip A. McDaniel. File# 021112-N-9593M-009
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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