Electrician's Mate 1st Class Solomon Canonizado from Oxnard, Calif., chisels out a paper seal inside the core of an electric motor.
Summary
Western Pacific (Aug. 06, 2004) Electrician's Mate 1st Class Solomon Canonizado from Oxnard, Calif., chisels out a paper seal inside the core of an electric motor in the motor rewind shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Stennis and Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are at sea on a regularly scheduled deployment in the Western Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Ron Reeves File# 040806-N-0684R-158
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.