The cremains of 14 service members and Department of Defense personnel sit on a table before being committed to the sea in a burial-at-sea ceremony aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (May. 26, 2008) The cremains of 14 service members and Department of Defense personnel sit on a table before being committed to the sea in a burial-at-sea ceremony aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Scott File# 080526-N-1635S-001
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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