US Navy (USN) flight deck personnel pushback on a USN F/A-18D Hornet, Fighter Composite Squadron 12 (VFC-12), Fighting Omars, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76). VFC-12 is the Naval Reserves premier adversary squadron providing threat tactics training to all Navy fighter and strike fighter squadrons. The REAGAN is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean conducting carrier qualifications for the West Coast Fleet Replacement Squadrons

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US Navy (USN) flight deck personnel pushback on a USN F/A-18D Hornet, Fighter Composite Squadron 12 (VFC-12), Fighting Omars, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76). VFC-12 is the Naval Reserves premier adversary squadron providing threat tactics training to all Navy fighter and strike fighter squadrons. The REAGAN is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean conducting carrier qualifications for the West Coast Fleet Replacement Squadrons

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Kevin S. O'Brien, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.