Quartermaster 2nd Class Lauren Williams, left, Quartermaster 2nd Class Kelvin Nazariovelez, center, and Quartermaster 3rd Class Bradley Beatie man the secondary conning station.

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Quartermaster 2nd Class Lauren Williams, left, Quartermaster 2nd Class Kelvin Nazariovelez, center, and Quartermaster 3rd Class Bradley Beatie man the secondary conning station.

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Pacific Ocean (Jan. 13, 2005) Quartermaster 2nd Class Lauren Williams, left, Quartermaster 2nd Class Kelvin Nazariovelez, center, and Quartermaster 3rd Class Bradley Beatie man the secondary conning station during a navigation drill aboard the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Sailors assigned to the Navigation Department man the station in the event of fire or battle damage to the ship's bridge. Currently conducting sea trials in the western Pacific Ocean, Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Benjamin Dennis File# 050113-N-9389D-130

Carriers

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.