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Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 24, 2008) Sailors assigned to the "Tophatters" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 remove a M-61A2 Vulcan 20mm Gattling gun from an F/A-18E Super Hornet aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is deployed with the U.S. 7th Fleet operating in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd class Eduardo Zaragoza File# 080324-N-9760Z-020
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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