The Uruguayan Navy Commandant Riviere Class Frigate, MONTEVIDEO (FFG 3) (foreground), steams near the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Aircraft Carrier USS ROANLD REAGAN (CVN 76) as a USN E-2C Hawkeye aircraft is on final approach to land on the Carrier. The REAGAN is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean, on a voyage to circumnavigating South America on its way to its new homeport at San Diego, California (CA)
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Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 John S. Lill, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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