Crash and Salvage crewmembers standby during daily flight operations in case of any emergency on the flight deck

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Crash and Salvage crewmembers standby during daily flight operations in case of any emergency on the flight deck

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The Arabian Gulf (Mar. 28, 2003) 'Crash and Salvage' crewmembers standby during daily flight operations in case of any emergency on the flight deck, as an SH-60F Sea Hawk assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Four (HS-4) takes off from the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are conducting combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national 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 Airman Jeanine Garcia. File# 030328-N-4336G-018

Carriers

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.