Friends and family observe as the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departs for a six to ten-month deployment from its homeport of Naval Station Everett.
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EVERETT, Wash. (Mar. 30, 2013) Friends and family observe as the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departs for a six to ten-month deployment from its homeport of Naval Station Everett. Nimitz will complete its sustainment exercise off the coast of Southern California before continuing on its western Pacific Deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeffry Willadsen) File# 130330-N-MM360-222
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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