Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Kristina Frye performs maintenance on an SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter.
Summary
PHILIPPINE SEA (Mar. 03, 2010) Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Kristina Frye, from Vero Beach, Fla, assigned to the Indians of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 6, performs maintenance on an SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 are deployed to the western Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr.) File# 100303-N-3038W-872
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.