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Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Byron Gates from St. Louis, Minn. carefully places leaflets into a silver cylinder urging Iraqi military forces not to engage coalition forces.
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The South Pacific Ocean (Mar. 27, 2003) Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Byron Gates from St. Louis, Minn. carefully places leaflets into a silver cylinder urging Iraqi military forces not to engage coalition forces. Leaflets also lay out the consequences of such actions in an effort to ensure local civilian populations are properly informed. USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are scheduled to join other multinational coalition forces conducting combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqs weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy Photo by Photographers Mate 2nd Class Tiffini M. Jones. File# 030327-N-8273J-001
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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