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Quartermaster 3rd Class Randolph Mobley III of Miami, Fla., plots the ship's coordinates during watch on the bridge of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).
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Persian Gulf (Nov. 17, 2005) Quartermaster 3rd Class Randolph Mobley III of Miami, Fla., plots the ship's coordinates during watch on the bridge of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Roosevelt and embarked Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8) are currently underway in the Persian Gulf supporting Operation Steel Curtain, a joint U.S.-Iraqi military offensive aimed at preventing cells of Al Qaeda from entering Iraq through the Syrian border. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Stephen Early File# 051117-N-6484E-009
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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