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The Military Sealift Command (MSC) fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8), right, transfers fuel while sending supplies and other stores to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Persian Gulf (Dec. 22, 2004) The Military Sealift Command (MSC) fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8), right, transfers fuel while sending supplies and other stores to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) via cable during an underway replenishment (UNREP). Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) is currently embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions over Iraq. Truman's Carrier Strike Group Ten (CSG-10) and CVW-3 are on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman Kristopher Wilson File# 041222-N-5345W-012
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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