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Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) man the rails as Reagan enters Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Ronald Reagan is participating in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014.
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PEARL HARBOR (Jul. 30, 2014) Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) man the rails as Reagan enters Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Ronald Reagan is participating in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC exercise from June 26 to Aug. 1, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Cody Hendrix) File# 140731-N-ZZ999-143
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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