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Members of the Green Bay Packers football team sign autographs for Sailors in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
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ARABIAN SEA (Feb. 16, 2011) Members of the Green Bay Packers football team sign autographs for Sailors in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Packers beat the Pittsburg Steelers in Super Bowl XLV last month and are on a visit to the ship sponsored by Navy Entertainment. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans) File# 110216-N-DR144-115
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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