Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Christopher Powers, assigned to the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) engineering department, secures a rigid-hull inflatable boat (RHIB) in Ford’s starboard boat davit, March 17, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Simon Pike)
Date Taken: | 03.17.2023 |
Date Posted: | 03.20.2023 19:18 |
Photo ID: | 7691309 |
VIRIN: | 230317-N-JJ744-1038 |
Resolution: | 2042x3456 |
Size: | 1.21 MB |
Location: | US |
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