A US Navy (USN) F/A-18C Hornet fighter, Strike Fighter Squadron 105 (VFA-105), Gunslingers, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), smokes its tires after catching the arresting wire aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). The TRUMAN is currently conducting carrier qualifications, sustainment operations and participating in a Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX). JTFEX is a key component in the training cycle of an aircraft carrier and carrier air wing in the US Navy Fleet Response Plan (FRP) construct

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Major Command Shown: VFA-105

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Eric S. Garst, Usn

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.