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preparing to remove the safety pin from a Captive Air Training Missile (CATM)
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At sea aboard USS Carl Vinson Aviation Ordnancemen assigned to the "Redcocks" of Strike Fighter Squadron Twenty Two (VFA-22) prepare to remove the safety pin from a Captive Air Training Missile (CATM) as one of the last steps prior to the aircraft's launch from one of four steam driven catapults on the ships flight deck. Carl Vinson is underway off the coast of California conducting training in preparation for an upcoming regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Inez Lawson. File# 021125-N-7265L-001
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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