Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Stanley Owuama, left, and Gunner's Mate 1st Class Christopher Powers, both assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), clean up waste in Chollas Creek.

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Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Stanley Owuama, left, and Gunner's Mate 1st Class Christopher Powers, both assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), clean up waste in Chollas Creek.

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SAN DIEGO (Aug. 25, 2012) Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Stanley Owuama, left, and Gunner's Mate 1st Class Christopher Powers, both assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), clean up waste in Chollas Creek, east of South Crest Trails Park, during Operation Clean Sweep. Operation Clean Sweep aims to develop community-based partnerships through neighbors working together to improve and manage the environment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shannon Heavin) File# 120825-N-AU127-239

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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.