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Onboard the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76), USN SEAMAN (SN) Shanyn Eckstein steadies a phone and distance line on the flight deck during a refueling at sea (RAS) Exercise between their ship and the USN Henry J. Kaiser Class Oiler USNS JOHN ERICSSON (T-AO 194). The REAGAN and USN Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) are currently on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) and Maritime Security Operations (MSO) in the Pacific Ocean. In the background is a F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft
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Base: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)
Scene Camera Operator: MC3 Marc Rockwell-Pate, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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