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US Navy (USN) Captain (CAPT) Larry Rice (left), Commanding Officer of the USN Aircraft Carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) meets Mr. Georgious Kopasis (right), the most highly decorated World War Two (WWII) veteran of the Battle of Crete, during an official wreath-laying ceremony at the Souda Bay WWII Veterans Cemetery in Crete, Greece, to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Crete. The ENTERPRISE and embarked Carrier Air Wing One (CVW 1) are currently conducting training and theater security cooperation engagements with countries from the Naval Forces Europe during their six-month deployment in gthe Atlantic Ocean
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Base: Souda Harbor
State: Crete
Country: Greece (GRC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milosz Reterski, 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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