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Airman Jason Langa and Airman Radames Martinez perform inventories on surface depot level repairable parts in the Repairable Asset Management Shop aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Mediterranean Sea (Apr. 15, 2003) Airman Jason Langa and Airman Radames Martinez perform inventories on surface depot level repairable parts in the Repairable Asset Management Shop aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Truman and Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) are currently on deployment conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational 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 Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Danny Ewing Jr. File# 030415-N-4953E-063
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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