A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron 103 (VFA-103), Jolly Rogers, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), prepares to engage the arresting cable during an arrested recovery aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). The TRUMAN is conducting carrier qualifications and sustainment operations off the East Coast

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A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron 103 (VFA-103), Jolly Rogers, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), prepares to engage the arresting cable during an arrested recovery aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). The TRUMAN is conducting carrier qualifications and sustainment operations off the East Coast

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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-103

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Kristopher Wilson, 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.