A bow view of the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) underway with its battle group during Exercise RimPac '86. From left to right are: the frigate USS BREWTON (FF-1086), the guided missile cruiser USS GRIDLEY (CG-21), the guided missile frigate USS VANDEGRIFT (FFG-48), the destroyer USS JOHN YOUNG (DD-973), the guided missile destroyer BENJAMIN STODDERT (DDG-22) and the guided missile cruiser USS WILLIAM H. STANDLEY (CG-32)

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: RIMPAC '86

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Lenardson

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.