Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) pick up trash at Nike Park during a community service project.
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CARROLLTON, Va. (Sep. 20, 2013) Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) pick up trash at Nike Park during a community service project. Abraham Lincoln is undergoing a refueling complex overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathon L. Lockwood) File# 130920-N-ND958-058
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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