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US Navy Aviation Ordnancemen from the "Patriots" of Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron One Four Zero (VAQ 140) load an AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) onto one of the squadron's EA-6B Prowler aircraft, on the flight deck of the US Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). George Washington is commanded by US Navy Captain Malcolm P. Branch, and is operating in the Adriatic sea, in support of the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR), under operation DECISIVE ENDEAVOR
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Subject Operation/Series: DECISIVE ENDEAVOR
Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Country: Adriatic Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Joe Hendricks, 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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