The US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS KITTTY HAWK (CV-63) departs Naval Forces Marianas Support Activity, Guam, after a four-day port visit. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), the KITTY HAWK demonstrates power projection and sea control as the US Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier
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Base: Apra Harbor
Country: Guam (GUM)
Scene Major Command Shown: CV-63
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 William H. Ramsey, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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