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Families and friends standing pier side observe as the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) gets underway at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia (VA), for a two-month deployment for the Partnership of the Americas training exercise. The exercise will provide a dynamic training environment for the George Washington Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and partner nations, while improving readiness levels, increase operational proficiency and foster good-will and stability in Central and South America
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Base: Naval Station, Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Joshua Glassburn, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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