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USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment ship USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200) conducts a replenishment at sea (RAS).
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Coral Sea (Jun. 24, 2005) USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment ship USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200) conducts a replenishment at sea (RAS). Cowpens is currently operating in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia's Queensland region as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2005. Talisman Sabre is an exercise jointly sponsored by the U.S. Pacific Command and Australian Defence Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the U.S. Seventh Fleet commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters. The exercise focuses on crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. U.S. Pacific Command units and Australian forces will conduct land, sea and air training throughout the training area. More than 11,000 U.S. and 6,000 Australian personnel will participate. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Bo J. Flannigan File# 050624-N-5781F-053
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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