A Day in the Life [Image 9 of 9]

UNITED STATES

03.16.2023

Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Darien Kenney 

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)           

Aviation Structural Mechanic 1st Class James Stanley (left), from Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 2nd Class Shakelly McRae, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, services an F/A-18 seat pan in the hangar bay of the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), March 16, 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 2nd Class Darien G. Kenney)

• Date Taken: 03.16.2023
• Date Posted: 03.20.2023 19:35
• Photo ID: 7691341
• VIRIN: 230316-N-NU634-0035
• Resolution: 2856x4291
• Size: 1.8 MB
• Location: US