The U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command Fast Combat Support Ship USNS SUPPLY (T-AOE 6), center, conducts a connected replenishment operation with the Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate USS TAYLOR (FFG 50), right, and the Aircraft Carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), left, in the Atlantic Ocean on March 3, 2006. ENTERPRISE and embarked Carrier Air Wing 1 are currently underway conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Rob Gaston) (Released)

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The U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command Fast Combat Support Ship USNS SUPPLY (T-AOE 6), center, conducts a connected replenishment operation with the Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate USS TAYLOR (FFG 50), right, and the Aircraft Carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), left, in the Atlantic Ocean on March 3, 2006. ENTERPRISE and embarked Carrier Air Wing 1 are currently underway conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Rob Gaston) (Released)

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Rob Gaston, USN

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.