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James Foote, an actor who impersonates Theodore Roosevelt, enters the Great White Fleet Gala through ceremonial sideboys aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 12, 2007) James Foote, an actor who impersonates Theodore Roosevelt, enters the Great White Fleet Gala through ceremonial sideboys aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). President Theodore Roosevelt sent 16 battleships and 14,000 Sailors on an around-the-world cruise to demonstrate the nation's emergence as a world power, Dec. 15, 1907. The ceremony was the first in a series of events to mark the landmark achievement. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Nathan Laird File# 071215-N-7241L-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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