Sailors and Marines climb down a cargo net and into the cool waters of the Persian Gulf during a swim call aboard the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).
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Persian Gulf (May. 10, 2005) Sailors and Marines climb down a cargo net and into the cool waters of the Persian Gulf during a swim call aboard the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the Persian Gulf and will end its deployment with a homeport shift to Norfolk, Va., and start a three-year refuel and complex overhaul. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Dusty Howell File# 050510-N-3241H-064
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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