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Lt. Peter T. Le, from Lockport, La., commits ashes to the deep during a burial-at-sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Sep. 21, 2008) Lt. Peter T. Le, from Lockport, La., commits ashes to the deep during a burial-at-sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The cremated remains of nine former service members were committed to the sea during a ceremony on Abraham Lincoln's No. 3 aircraft elevator. Operating in the western Pacific and Indian oceans, the USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ronald A. Dallatorre) File# 080921-N-9079D-053
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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