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Machinist's Mate 1st Class Elizabeth Howard dons a firefighting ensemble.
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INDIAN OCEAN (Jan. 09, 2012) Machinist's Mate 1st Class Elizabeth Howard, assigned to the reactor department aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), dons a firefighting ensemble while responding to a simulated fire. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are underway on a deployment to the western Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans) File# 120109-N-DR144-024
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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