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What does CAW stand for?

Carrier Air Wing (US Navy)


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Commissie Algemene Vraagstukken Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Dutch: Committee on General Issues of Scientific Research; Netherlands)
Cinematic Audio Visual eXperience
Cakewalk Audio Workstation (audio equipment)
Californians Against Waste
Campaign for America's Wilderness
Canadian Auto Workers
Canadian Autoworkers Union
Cancer Awareness Week (various locations)
Capital Area Woodturners
Carbon Arc Welding
Center for Asymmetric Warfare (US Navy Naval Air Weapons Division, Pt Mugu, CA, USA)
Certificate Authority Workstation
Certification Authority Workstation
Channel Address Word (IBM)
Chemical Activity, WESTCOM
Church of All Worlds (neo-pagan church)
Clare Animal Welfare (Ireland)
Club Astro de Wittelsheim (French astronomy club)
Command All the Way
Committee for Asian Women (Bangkok, Thailand)



Samples in periodicals archive:
Ted "Twig" Branch will lead the strike group, which also includes Carrier Air Wing 17, Destroyer Squadron 1, and the cruisers USS Bunker Hill and USS Lake Champlain.
Aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 14 departed the decks of the strike group's flagship, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, bound for Afghanistan to support coalition ground forces.
Since its redesignation from Carrier Air Wing Reserve (CVWR) 20 on 1 April 2007, the TSW has evolved into a diverse unit performing niche specialties with some individual units maintaining a surge capability.
7) Because of the Navy's lack of a significant precision-strike capability when the call to deploy for DESERT STORM arose, its six carrier air wings that participated in the campaign were denied certain targets, which were assigned to the Air Force instead, by default.
The squadron is part of Carrier Air Wing Three, which deploys on the USS Harry S.
The outstanding safety record of both the ship and its assigned air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11, earned them the Admiral H.
forces in Japan include shifting a command center from Fort Lewis in Washington to Camp Zama near Tokyo, and a carrier air wing from Camp Atsugi near Tokyo to Iwakuni in western Honshu.
and its embarked Carrier Air Wing 14 from NAS Lemoore, Calif.

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