John Stennis (CVN 74) - Naval Cruise Book

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The men and women of V-2 Division execute the carrier ' s pri- mary mission of launch- ing and recovering air- craft. Safely and quickly, they catapult and trap aircraft both day and night. To accomplish this, V-2 operates and maintains four catapults five arresting gear sys- tems, the Integrated Launch and Recovery Television Surveillance System (ILARTS) and the Fresnel Lens system. Accomplishing this demanding task with no room for error re- quires extensive training and equipment mainte- nance. In all extremes, from 20 -hour workdays to an ever-changing op- erational tempo, V-2 launches and recovers aircraft on the busiest airport in the world. 84 A.IIL V-2