The United States Navy has awarded its 2024 Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award to the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), currently deployed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Gerald R. Ford is the U.S. Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier. 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
The U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), and embarked staff from Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12 arrived in Souda Bay, Crete.
In a continued sign of transatlantic unity, the USS Gerald R. Ford came under NATO command while preparing to conduct activities in the Norwegian Sea.
