Postal Clerk 1st Class Tony Zarate is interviewed by local media. More than 53,000 lbs of mail stands ready for delivery to crew members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
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Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii (Apr. 23, 2003) Postal Clerk 1st Class Tony Zarate is interviewed by local media. More than 53,000 lbs of mail stands ready for delivery to crew members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The Pearl Harbor Mail Center has never held this much mail for any deployed ship. The Abraham Lincoln Strike Group has been deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of Iraqi Freedom and is scheduled for make a port call in Pearl Harbor, while transiting to her home port in, Everett, Wash.U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 2nd Class Dennis Cantrell. File# 030423-N-8157C-066
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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