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030325-N-1290G-001, US Navy Photogrpah
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Mediterranean Sea (Mar. 26, 2003) A plane captain monitors the start up of a C-2 Greyhound assigned to the Rawhides of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Forty (VRC-40) in preparation for launch from one of four steam driven catapults on the flight deck of USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75). Truman and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) are operating in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqs weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman Carl E. Gibson. File# 030325-N-1290G-001
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.
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