Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Adam Goetz directs the landing of an MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to the Chargers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

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.