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Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd Class Tyler Yee mans an M-240 machine gun as an HH-60H Seahawk flies over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 30, 2008) Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd Class Tyler Yee mans an M-240 machine gun as an HH-60H Seahawk assigned to the "Golden Falcons" of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron (HS) 2 flies over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during an air power demonstration. Lincoln, embarked CVW-2, and the rest of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 9 are on a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans File# 080330-N-7981E-370
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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