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CELEBRITIES speak to Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) before a showing the movie in the ship's hangar bay.
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GULF OF OMAN (Jan. 27, 2010) James Cameron, center, director of the motion picture "Avatar" and actors Stephen Lang, left, producer Jon Landau, actress Michelle Rodriguez, and military consultant John David Cameron, speak to Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) before a showing the movie in the ship's hangar bay. Eisenhower is deployed as part of an on-going rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th and 6th fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Bookwalter) File# 100127-N-1688B-049
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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