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Aviation Ordnancemen lift an AIM-9M Sidewinder air-to-air missile to upload it onto an F/A-18 Hornet aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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The Arabian Gulf (Apr. 12, 2003) Aviation Ordnancemen lift an AIM-9M Sidewinder air-to-air missile to upload it onto an F/A-18 Hornet aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are on deployment conducting missions in support of Operation Enduring 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 Yesenia Rosas. File# 030412-N-2385R-010
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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