US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class (AO3) Jeremy Stevens shoots the phone and distance line from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) to a Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment oiler USNS PECOS (T-AO 197) alongside during a replenishment at sea
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Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
Scene Major Command Shown: USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jordon R. Beesley, 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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