Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Tyler Corbin, assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68), interacts with veterans at Retsil Washington Veterans Home in Port Orchard, Wash. during a community relations event.

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Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Tyler Corbin, assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68), interacts with veterans at Retsil Washington Veterans Home in Port Orchard, Wash. during a community relations event.

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BREMERTON, Wash. (Mar. 30, 2016) Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Tyler Corbin, assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68), interacts with veterans at Retsil Washington Veterans Home in Port Orchard, Wash. during a community relations event. Nimitz is currently undergoing an extended planned incremental maintenance availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility where the ship is receiving scheduled maintenance and upgrades. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Colby S. Comery) File# 160330-N-OV009-138

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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30/03/2016 - 30/03/2016
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BREMERTON, Wash.
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