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Onboard the flight deck of the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75), a (brown shirt) Plane Captain inspects a pair of USN S-3B Viking aircraft assigned to the "Checkmates" of Sea Control Squadron 22 (VS-22), as they sit spotted on deck, following a far-reaching sandstorm blew over the Persian Gulf and left TRUMAN covered with a fine layer of sand from bow to stern. The TRUMAN and embarked Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) are currently underway in the Persian Gulf providing close air support and conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Kristopher Wilson, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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