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Lt. Michael Wallace, a fighter pilot assigned to the Swordsmen of Fighter Squadron Three Two (VF-32), inspects a Captive Air Training Missile (CATM) under the wing of an F-14B Tomcat.
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Persian Gulf (Jan. 12, 2005) A fighter pilot assigned to the Swordsmen of Fighter Squadron Three Two (VF-32), inspects a Captive Air Training Missile (CATM) under the wing of an F-14B Tomcat during pre-flight inspections on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) is embarked aboard Truman and is providing close air support and conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions over Iraq. The Truman Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Kristopher Wilson File# 050112-N-5345W-066
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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