U.S. Navy Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) Sailors attach supplies to a Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 (HSC-28,"Dragon Whales") MH-60S Knighthawk (Sierra) multi-mission helicopter during an underway replenishment between the EISENHOWER and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Supply Class Fast Combat Support Ship USNS ARCTIC (T-AOE 8) on Jan. 25, 2007, while the EISENHOWER and embarked Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) are on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of maritime security operations in the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Area of Responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Apprentice Jon Dasbach) (Released)
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Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69)
Scene Camera Operator: MCSA Jon Dasbach, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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