Aviation Machinist's Mate 1st Class Soseti Heimuli, from Euless, Texas, scrubs paint off a water wash bottle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Sep. 27, 2008) Aviation Machinist's Mate 1st Class Soseti Heimuli, from Euless, Texas, scrubs paint off a water wash bottle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brandon C. Wilson) File# 080927-N-1745W-036
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.