Sailors use a stretcher to transport Ted Distefano, assigned to Strategic Operations San Diego, while wearing a moulage suit during an integrated mass casualty drill.
Summary
SAN DIEGO (Jul. 24, 2017) Sailors use a stretcher to transport Ted Distefano, assigned to Strategic Operations San Diego, while wearing a moulage suit during an integrated mass casualty drill aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is moored in its homeport of San Diego, Calif. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bill M. Sanders) File# 170724-N-TV230-160
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.