unner's Mate 2nd Class Neal Glutting and other sailors of a firing detail ready their weapons to fire three volleys at the conclusion of a burial-at-sea ceremony.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Mar. 19, 2008) Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Neal Glutting and other sailors of a firing detail ready their weapons to fire three volleys at the conclusion of a burial-at-sea ceremony held for 33 former service members aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans File# 080319-N-7981E-517
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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