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Capt. Kent Whalen, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), addresses Sailors and their families during a pre-deployment brief in the hangar bay aboard Carl Vinson in preparation for a deployment later this year.
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SAN DIEGO (Jul. 23, 2014) Capt. Kent Whalen, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), addresses Sailors and their families during a pre-deployment brief in the hangar bay aboard Carl Vinson in preparation for a deployment later this year. Carl Vinson is pierside at Naval Air Station North Island. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Travis Alston) File# 140723-N-ZO368-043
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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