A US Navy (USN) signal enlisted gestures to the pilots of an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Saberhawks" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 47 (HSL-47), to hold their brakes aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and its Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) are currently underway in the Western Pacific on scheduled deployment

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A US Navy (USN) signal enlisted gestures to the pilots of an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Saberhawks" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 47 (HSL-47), to hold their brakes aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and its Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) are currently underway in the Western Pacific on scheduled deployment

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Justin Blake, 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.