Commander Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, Rear Adm. Ray Spicer, greets Commander, Naval Forces Korea, Rear Adm. Phil Wisecup, immediately after the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) pulled into Pusan, South Korea.

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.