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A family member watches from the pier as the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) departs for a deployment.
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BREMERTON, Wash. (Jan. 15, 2016) A family member watches from the pier as the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) departs for a deployment. Stennis departed its homeport of Bremerton, Wash., for a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Seth Coulter) File# 160115-N-JY507-080
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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