The Honorable Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense (DEPSECDEF), ceremoniously cuts a cake with US Navy (USN) Electronics Technician First Class (ET1) Bruce Burley after a group reenlistment of 39 Sailors onboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76). Mr. Paul Wolfowitz is visiting during REAGAN's homecoming ceremony. The carrier arrived at its new homeport of Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI), San Diego, California (CA), after participating in exercises in support of SUMMER PULSE 2004 with South American Naval forces

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Coronado

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Kathleen Gorby, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.