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Aviation Ordnancemen aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) connect a sling load loop pole to an MH-60S Knighthawk
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Arabian Gulf (Apr. 07, 2003) Aviation Ordnancemen aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) connect a sling load loop pole to an MH-60S Knighthawk assigned to the Providers of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5) during a vertical replenishment with USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Lincoln and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are on deployment operating with coalition forces 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 3rd Class Philip A. McDaniel. File# 030407-N-9593M-055
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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