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Firefighters respond to a casualty during a fire drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 02, 2011) Firefighters respond to a casualty during a fire drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Dwight D. Eisenhower is underway assisting the Chief of Naval Air Training to help prepare naval aviators for future carrier-based operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Parde) File# 110802-N-AU622-128
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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