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Sailors take the Navy-wide third class petty officer advancement examination on the mess decks of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 21, 2013) Sailors take the Navy-wide third class petty officer advancement examination on the mess decks of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan returned to San Diego March 21 following a year-long docking planned incremental availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy M. Black) File# 130321-N-AV746-137
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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