US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman Third Class (AO3) Tristan Rose inspects various weapons and deliverable ordnance that is presently staged in the Flight Deck Bomb Farm area of the USN Enterprise Class Aircraft Carrier, USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65). The USS ENTERPRISE and embarked Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW 1) are currently on a scheduled six-month deployment to the Arabian Sea in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)

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.