USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the lead ship of the Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, commissioned in 2017. The archival image documents inspection of a jet propulsion fuel JP-5 sample within the carrier’s pump room in the Atlantic Ocean on November 3, 2017, during testing and evaluation operations.

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