Preparing weapons for war, operation Enduring Freedom
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Aboard USS Carl Vinson (Oct. 07, 2001) Aviation Ordnancemen move a 1,000-pound bomb onto the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The bombs will be used during strikes against al Qaida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorist operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime. The Carl Vinson is operating in the Arabian Sea as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Greg Messier File# 011007-N-6520M-052
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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