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Senior Chief Machinist's Mate Marlow Jenkins, left, assigned to the engineering department's Auxiliary Division,
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 06, 2011) Senior Chief Machinist's Mate Marlow Jenkins, left, assigned to the engineering department's Auxiliary Division, works on a capstan aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are on a deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Rosa A. Arzola) File# 110106-N-7488A-271
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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