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Commander, Naval Force Fifth Fleet, Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating visits sailors to offer his thanks and encouragement in the hangar bay aboard USS Constellation (CV 64)
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Arabian Gulf (Apr. 15, 2003) Commander, Naval Force Fifth Fleet, Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating visits sailors to offer his thanks and encouragement in the hangar bay aboard USS Constellation (CV 64). Constellation and Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman David A. O'Haver. File# 030415-N-8693O-001
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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