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Sailors man the rails aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as the they get underway from their homeport at Naval Air Station North Island.
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Coronado, Calif. (Jan. 04, 2006) Sailors man the rails aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as the they get underway from their homeport at Naval Air Station North Island. More than 5,500 Sailors assigned to the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group deployed in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. This is the maiden deployment for the Navy's newest Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Stefanie Broughton File# 060104-N-5621B-136
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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