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Capt. K.J. Norton, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), salutes Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Noel Myers during a burial at sea ceremony aboard Ronald Reagan.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Jun. 09, 2009) Capt. K.J. Norton, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), salutes Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Ryan Myers during a burial at sea ceremony aboard Ronald Reagan. Myers followed in the path of his father, Edmond McKinley Myers Jr., by serving in the Navy, and it was on a Navy platform where the two would say goodbye. Ronald Reagan is on a routine deployment to the Western Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Torrey W. Lee) File# 090609-N-3610L-458
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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