Sailors disembark the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

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Sailors disembark the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

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Norfolk, Va. (Mar. 11, 2006) Sailors disembark the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) upon returning after a six-month combat deployment. Roosevelt and embarked Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8) deployed in support of maritime security operations and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class David P. Coleman File# 060311-N-4936C-010

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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Norfolk, Va.
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