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Engineman 1st Class Kevin Kesler, pats kangaroos living at the Featherdale Zoo while on a USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) tour.
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Sydney, Australia (Jul. 04, 2005) Engineman 1st Class Kevin Kesler, pats kangaroos living at the Featherdale Zoo while on a USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) tour. The conventionally-powered Kitty Hawk, embarked Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) arrived for a five-day port in Australia, while conducting its summer cruise in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR). Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Hana'lei Shimana File# 050704-N-6009S-002
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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