Marines and Sailors participate in military drill as a part of a Marine Corps Professional Military Education (PME) course in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (May. 10, 2013) Marines and Sailors participate in military drill as a part of a Marine Corps Professional Military Education (PME) course in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is underway for a western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Derek A. Harkins) File# 130510-N-TW634-034
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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