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The US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class (Flight II) Guided Missile Destroyer (Aegis) USS SHOUP (DDG 86), (foreground), and the USN Arleigh Burke Class (Flight I) Guided Missile Destroyer (Aegis) USS RUSSELL (DDG 59), maneuver through the waters of the South China Sea, during a Pass and Review exercise conducted with the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and embarked Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW 2) are currently underway to the Western Pacific Ocean for a scheduled deployment
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Country: South China Sea
Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Justin R. Blake, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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16/04/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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