Reactor Officer Cmdr. Matthew M. Sharpe, from Watertown, Mass., and Lt. Cmdr. Chris J. Thurmond, from Titanup, Neb., launch a C-2 Greyhound
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Atlantic Ocean (Oct. 05, 2003) Reactor Officer Cmdr. Matthew M. Sharpe, from Watertown, Mass., and Lt. Cmdr. Chris J. Thurmond, from Titanup, Neb., launch a C-2 Greyhound, assigned to the Rawhides" of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Forty (VRC-40), from one of four steam powered catapults aboard USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Lance H. Mayhew Jr. File# 031005-N-6187M-001
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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