US Navy Machinist's Mate Second Class James Champagne is training to be the boiler tech of the watch, as he talks to the engine room and watches from Main Engine Room One of the Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier, USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62). The ship is currently deployed to the Persian Gulf as part of Southwest Asia build-up

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.