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Norfolk, VA - USS Kennedy arrival
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Norfolk, Va. (Aug. 15, 2002) Photographers Mate 1st Class James Hampshire receives a hug from his wife upon his arrival from a six-month deployment aboard USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67). Petty Officer Hampshire, assigned to Fleet Combat Camera, Atlantic, was deployed as part of the USS Kennedy Battle Group Staff. The battlegroup was deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 1st Class Marthaellen L. Ball. File# 020815-N-9251B-007
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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