Aviation Ordnancemen move AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) in weapons magazines on board the U.S. Navy nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). USS George Washington, under the command of CAPT Malcolm P. Branch departed its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, on January 26 for a six month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. While there, the "Spirit of Freedom" will patrol the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Bosnia in support of NATO peace keeping Operation Joint Endeavor
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Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR
Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Ryan Child
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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