Hull Maintenance Technician Fireman Jon Strong cuts a deck plate to install a hinge aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 07, 2008) Hull Maintenance Technician Fireman Jon Strong cuts a deck plate to install a hinge aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is operating as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet, in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Matthew J. Lanese File# 080307-N-6642L-044
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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