Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Apprentice Aaron Sperry uses a torque wrench to make routine adjustments on an arresting gear wire.

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Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Apprentice Aaron Sperry uses a torque wrench to make routine adjustments on an arresting gear wire.

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Arabian Gulf (Apr. 16, 2004) Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Apprentice Aaron Sperry uses a torque wrench to make routine adjustments on an arresting gear wire on the flight deck aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73). The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Michael D. Blackwell II. File# 040416-N-1045B-034

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.