Quartermaster 3rd Class Riki Cook, of San Diego, Calif., utilizes an alidade, to take a bearing aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73).

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Quartermaster 3rd Class Riki Cook, of San Diego, Calif., utilizes an alidade, to take a bearing aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73).

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Arabian Gulf (Mar. 25, 2004) Quartermaster 3rd Class Riki Cook, of San Diego, Calif., utilizes an alidade, to take a bearing aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73). Alidades are used for getting a ships positional bearing by using navigational aids such as landmasses, ships, or celestial bodies The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman Robert Brooks. File# 040325-N-9630B-023

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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.