Gunner's Mate Seaman Joseph Cerfus of Surprise, Az., cleans a M-240 machine gun in the ship�s Armory.
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Pacific Ocean (Nov. 04, 2004) Gunner's Mate Seaman Joseph Cerfus of Surprise, Az., cleans an M-240 machine gun in the ships Armory aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The M-240 is a 7.62mm (.30 cal) medium machine gun. Lincoln and embarked Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are currently deployed to the Western Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Apprentice Nicholas B. Morton File# 041104-N-8539M-024
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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