Sailors check for residual heat during a simulated aircraft fire as part of a shipboard general quarters drill aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 02, 2007) Sailors check for residual heat during a simulated aircraft fire as part of a shipboard general quarters drill aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is currently underway conducting Joint Task Force Exercises off the coast of Southern California. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Emily Stroia File# 070302-N-9865S-103
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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