Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Zach T. Nance leans from a cherry picker to clean the top of a bulkhead in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).

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Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Zach T. Nance leans from a cherry picker to clean the top of a bulkhead in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).

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SAN DIEGO (May. 13, 2010) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Zach T. Nance leans from a cherry picker to clean the top of a bulkhead in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Sailors assigned to Ronald Reagan conducted a three-hour ship-wide cleaning in preparation for the first underway since entering a six-month maintenance period. Ronald Reagan is performing crew certification training to prepare for upcoming at-sea periods. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Oliver Cole) File# 100513-N-9132C-230

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.