Electrician Fireman Matthew Hertel, of Carlton, Ore., poses for his U.S. Navy Identification Card photograph at Naval Station Everett Personnel Support Detachment (PSD).
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Everett, Wash. (Oct. 22, 2002) Electrician Fireman Matthew Hertel, of Carlton, Ore., poses for his U.S. Navy Identification Card photograph at Naval Station Everett Personnel Support Detachment (PSD). Fireman Hertel recently checked in aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 1st Class Jay Sullivan. File# 021022-N-5274S-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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