Carrier air wing

A carrier air wing, abbreviated CVW, is the operational naval aviation organization of several aircraft squadrons and detachments, fixed-wing and rotary-wing, that embarks aboard an aircraft carrier. It is organized, equipped and trained for modern United States Navy carrier air operations and supplies most of the striking power and electronic warfare capability of a carrier strike group. Until 1963 such units were called carrier air groups. A wing counts as a composite wing and is not the same as a Navy type wing, which is an administrative and training command for squadrons of one aircraft type. The Marine Corps equivalent is the Marine Aircraft Group. The article says nine Navy carrier air wings currently exist, with wings based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Naval Air Station Lemoore and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.