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The crew of USS Carl Vinson and crew members from the newly assigned Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) team-up for a Foreign Object Damage (FOD) walk down prior to recovering the air wing's aircraft
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At sea aboard USS Carl Vinson Upon departing from San Diego, the crew of USS Carl Vinson and crew members from the newly assigned Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) team-up for a Foreign Object Damage (FOD) walk down prior to recovering the air wing's aircraft. FOD walk downs are conducted to remove solid objects from the ships flight deck that might cause damage to aircraft engines during flight operations. Carl Vinson and her newly assigned Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) are completing a recent workup exercise in the Southern California operating area in preparation for an upcoming regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Bob Meeker. File# 021107-N-9236M-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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