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Sailors play ultimate Frisbee with a local team at the American School of Dubai.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Feb. 18, 2012) Master Chief Quartermaster Jonathan Myers, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), right, and Sailors assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) play ultimate Frisbee with a local team at the American School of Dubai. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and air missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher K. Hwang) File# 120218-N-MD252-251
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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