On 4 January 1963, Operation Checkertail saw " Kitty Hawk " and three other attack aircraft carriers launch practice airstrikes against the Okinawa Air Defense Command.
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In the early 1950s, Riley became the assistant chief of staff for plans on the staff of the captain, he was the commanding officer of the attack aircraft carrier.
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When submarine-launched ballistic missiles rendered the P-5s obsolescent, they were replaced with the P-6 ( also NATO reporting name SS-N-3a Shaddock, though a very different missile ) designed to attack aircraft carriers.
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Therefore, Johnson became the first Commanding Officer of the 60, 000-ton attack aircraft carrier on her commissioning day, October 1, 1955, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia.
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"Hornet " was recommissioned on 20 March 1951, then sailed from San Francisco for the New York Naval Shipyard where she was decommissioned on 12 May for conversion to an attack aircraft carrier "'CVA-12 " '.
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He graduated from the U . S . Naval Academy in 1939 . Abbot was the commanding officer of the attack aircraft carrier " USS Intrepid ", which dispatched a helicopter to pick up astronaut Scott Carpenter.
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*1975 United States Marine Corps helicopters from the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli ( LPH-10 ) and the attack aircraft carrier USS Hancock ( CVA-19 ) evacuate the staff of the U . S . Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Until the 1970s, US Navy taxonomy categorized large-scale flattops as " attack aircraft carriers " and small flattops as " antisubmarine aircraft carriers . " In Japan, the constitutional prohibition against having " attack " aircraft carries has been construed to encompass small aircraft carriers but not helicopter carriers.
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During that third and final tour, she served as a screen commander for two of the attack aircraft carriers operating on " Yankee Station " located in the southern reaches of the Tonkin Gulf as well as antiaircraft warfare command ship for all of Task Force ( TF ) 77.
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Before he retired from active duty in 1964 after 31 years of service, his long military career took him from the ranks of midshipmen at Annapolis to the command of the attack aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard and the post of chief of the plans division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
