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Master Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate Raul Castillo, left, and Aircraft Handling Officer Lt. Cmdr. Tommy Edgeworth, wipe away tears as they lead a memorial Foreign Object Damage walk down.
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ARABIAN SEA (Jan. 25, 2012) Master Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate Raul Castillo, left, and Aircraft Handling Officer Lt. Cmdr. Tommy Edgeworth, wipe away tears as they lead a memorial Foreign Object Damage walk down dedicated to Lt. Cmdr. Regina Mills aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Mills was struck and killed as she assisted others in a traffic collision near Bremerton, Wash. where she was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans) File# 120125-N-DR144-525
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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