Onboard the US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS HARRRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75), sailors assigned to the aviation ordnance crew download an AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile from a USN F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. The Truman and Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) are currently on a six-month deployment 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 Ryan O'Connor, 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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