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Ship's Serviceman 1st Class Samuel Hernandez-Moreno pays his respects to a fallen service member buried at the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial on Memorial Day.
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BROOKWOOD, England (May. 29, 2011) Ship's Serviceman 1st Class Samuel Hernandez-Moreno, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), pays his respects to a fallen service member buried at the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial on Memorial Day. George H.W. Bush is anchored off the coast of Portsmouth, England, for the ship's first overseas port visit of its first combat deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jennifer L. Jaqua) File# 110529-N-PE140-126
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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