A plane captain begins start-up procedures on an F/A-18 Super Hornet prior to the first launch

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A plane captain begins start-up procedures on an F/A-18 Super Hornet prior to the first launch

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Arabian Gulf (May. 26, 2003) A plane captain begins start-up procedures on an F/A-18 Super Hornet prior to the first launch cycle of the day aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Yesenia Rosas. File# 030526-N-2385R-002

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.