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Information Systems Technician 1st Class Ebony Nichols, right, looks on as Command Master Chief Kevin Davis, center, places her white hat on the ceremonial slide.
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Arabian Gulf (Sep. 14, 2004) Information Systems Technician 1st Class Ebony Nichols, right, looks on as Command Master Chief Kevin Davis, center, places her white hat on the ceremonial slide during a White Hat burial at sea ceremony held aboard USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67). The ceremony is one of the final steps in the transitions the CPO Selects go through prior to their inaugural pinning. Kennedy and embarked Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) are currently on deployment to the 5th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Units in the Kennedy Carrier Strike Group are working closely with Multi-National Corps-Iraq and Iraqi forces to bring stability to the sovereign government of Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Joshua Karsten File# 040914-N-8704K-003
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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