Crew members sort hoisting slings on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) as another crew member prepares to attach a pole pendant to an HH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, background, from a helicopter combat support squadron aboard the ammunition ship USS SHASTA (AE-33). The Sea Knight is delivering supplies to the NIMITZ during vertical replenishment operations between the carrier and the ammunition ship while the NIMITZ takes part in WestPac '93

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Crew members sort hoisting slings on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) as another crew member prepares to attach a pole pendant to an HH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, background, from a helicopter combat support squadron aboard the ammunition ship USS SHASTA (AE-33). The Sea Knight is delivering supplies to the NIMITZ during vertical replenishment operations between the carrier and the ammunition ship while the NIMITZ takes part in WestPac '93

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Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH1 J.H. Hockersmith

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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.