Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1997 Title: Daddy's Home Category: Combat Camera; Portfolio Place: 1ST Place Combat Camera; 2nd Place Portfolio Exact Date Shot Unknown Caption: Navy LT. Rod Behrend, an F-14 radar intercept officer, is hugged by his two-year-old daughter Kameryn after returning on June 8, 1997, with the rest of Fighter Squadron 154 to their home base of Atsugi, Japan, after a four-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE, the only American carrier based outside the United States

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Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1997 Title: Daddy's Home Category: Combat Camera; Portfolio Place: 1ST Place Combat Camera; 2nd Place Portfolio Exact Date Shot Unknown Caption: Navy LT. Rod Behrend, an F-14 radar intercept officer, is hugged by his two-year-old daughter Kameryn after returning on June 8, 1997, with the rest of Fighter Squadron 154 to their home base of Atsugi, Japan, after a four-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE, the only American carrier based outside the United States

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Naval Air Facility, Atsugi

Country: Japan (JPN)

Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Aw) M. Clayton Farrington

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.