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Lieutenant Tuanh Nguyen of Highlands, Colo., inserts a crown on a patient�s tooth in the Dental Examination Room aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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The Arabian Gulf (Apr. 12, 2003) Lieutenant Tuanh Nguyen of Highlands, Colo., inserts a crown on a patients tooth in the Dental Examination Room aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqs weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Maebel Tinoko. File# 030412-N-2143T-008
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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