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The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) conducts a refueling at sea (RAS) with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8).
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Mediterranean Sea (Apr. 10, 2003) The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) conducts a refueling at sea (RAS) with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) while simultaneously conducting a vertical replenishment (VERTREP) with the ammunition ship USNS Mount Baker (T-AE 34). Harry S. Truman and Carrier Airwing Three (CVW-3) are currently on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class John Beeman. File# 030410-N-9851B-131
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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