Lt. Ryan Feingold, USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) command deputy judge advocate, from Miami, Florida, has served in the U.S. Navy for five and a half years. He grew up in a Jewish household and his grandparents on both sides of his family were survivors of the Holocaust.
“I grew up hearing stories about the horrors that my family endured during the Holocaust,” said Feingold. “Those stories taught me a lot about life and shaped me into who I am today.”
Feingold said that growing up, his family cared deeply about Jewish history and preserving important traditions. His family routinely went to synagogue on Shabbat, and he had his bar mitzvah in Israel when he was 13. Feingold’s maternal grandfather is 97-years-old and...
Senior Chief Aviation Electronics Technician Tonee Barachina, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) air department, receives her cover from her husband and daughter during Ford’s Master Chief and Senior Chief Petty Officer pinning ceremony, May 20, 2022. Six Master Chiefs and 16 Senior Chiefs were pinned during the ceremony. Ford is in port Naval Station Norfolk preparing for its next underway period. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nolan Pennington)
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) successfully completes an underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications and strike group integration as part of the ship’s basic training phase. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Trenton Edly)
Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born July 14, 1913, in Omaha, NE. The future President grew up in a close-knit family, excelled scholastically and athletically at South High School in Grand Rapids, and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in November 1927.
Ford attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he majored in economics and political science. An extremely gifted athlete, FORD was voted the Wolverine’s most valuable player in 1934, with opportunities to play professional football.
Ford chose the legal profession over a professional football career, graduating with a law degree from Yale in 1941. After the United States entered the war during World War II, Ford received a commission...
