Sailors load test the current on antenna cables.
Summary
NAVAL BASE KITSAP-BREMERTON, Wash. (Aug. 30, 2012) Information Systems Technicians 3rd Class Brandon Lantz, from South Sioux City, Neb., and Ryan Morse, from Charleston, S.C., load test the current on antenna cables on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is currently homeported in Bremerton, Wash., while undergoing a docked planned incremental availability maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Nolan Kahn) File# 120830-N-NK714-018
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.