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Aviation Boatswain�s Mate Equipment 3rd Class Matthew Young performs a maintenance check on a holdback bar before flight operations on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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PERSIAN GULF (Jun. 05, 2007) Aviation Boatswains Mate Equipment 3rd Class Matthew Young performs a maintenance check on a holdback bar before flight operations on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 are deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet conducting maritime operations supporting troops in the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Gretchen M. Roth File# 070605-N-8119R-022
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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