US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman Third Class (AO3) Daniel Wickersham mans a Browning M2 HB 0.50 caliber heavy machine gun located on the fantail of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) are performing combat operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
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Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Tyler J. Clements, 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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