Navy commissions USS Gerald R Ford

North America An F/A-18F assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 approaches USS ‘Gerald R Ford’ prior to the carrier’s first arrested landing during test and evaluation operations in the Atlantic on July 28. US Navy/Erik Hildebrandt THE US Navy and President Donald Trump introduced the first of the Ford-class aircraft carriers, USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78), to active service in a ceremony in Newport News, Virginia, on July 22. Completed by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the