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An empty shell casing ejects from the chamber of a 9mm Beretta handgun as Photographer's Mate Airman Gregory Pierot participates in a small weapons qualification aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Persian Gulf (Jan. 11, 2005) An empty shell casing ejects from the chamber of a 9mm Beretta handgun as Photographer's Mate Airman Gregory Pierot participates in a small weapons qualification aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) are providing close air support and conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions over Iraq. The Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Kristopher Wilson File# 050111-N-5345W-121
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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