A hose team fights a fire on the Mobile Aircraft Firefighting Device (MAFTD) during a General Quarters drill on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).
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Norfolk, Va. (Sep. 28, 2005) A hose team fights a fire on the Mobile Aircraft Firefighting Device (MAFTD) during a General Quarters drill on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The MAFTD was brought aboard Eisenhower so flight deck personnel could train on aircraft firefighting techniques. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Pedro Rios Alvarez File# 050928-N-2258R-004
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.