Sailors assigned to the aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) participate in a benefit hockey game at Scope Arena to raise funds for the Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society.

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.