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CH-53 launches from CVN 71 flight deck
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At sea aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt A U.S. Navy CH-53E Sea Stallion leaves the flight deck after delivering personnel and logistics support to the nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Theodore Roosevelt and her embarked carrier air wing are conducting sustained combat missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Travis Ross. File# 020129-N-1056R-002
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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