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LTC Stephen F.
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Thanks for reminding usSP5 Mark Kuzinski that one day the US Navy Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford may be delivered in April 2017 - hopefully not April fools day.
FYI Gerald Ford was President when I enlisted in November 1974.
I caught flack because my last name was Ford both because of the President and because my platoon assistant drill sergeant had a last name of Ford.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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LTC Stephen F. thanks for the mention, I get to see all the carriers getting built and every now and then, on the Chesapeake Bay.

Construction began on 11 August 2005, when Northrop Grumman held a ceremonial steel cut for a 15-ton plate that will form part of a side shell unit of the carrier.[55] Construction began on components of CVN-78 in early 2007[56] and is nearing completion. It is under the final steps of construction at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (formerly Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding) in Newport News, Virginia. This is the only shipyard in the United States capable of building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

In 2005, it was estimated to cost at least $8 billion excluding the $5 billion spent on research and development (though that was not expected to be representative of the cost of future members of the class).[14] A 2009 report said that Ford would cost $14 billion including research and development, and the actual cost of the carrier itself would be $9 billion.[57] The life-cycle cost per operating day of a carrier strike group (including aircraft) was estimated at $6.5 million in 2013 published by the Center for New American Security.[58]

A total of three carriers have been authorized for construction, but if the Nimitz-class carriers and Enterprise were to be replaced on a one-for-one basis, eleven carriers would be required over the life of the program. However, the last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is not scheduled to be decommissioned until 2058.

In a speech on 6 April 2009, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the program would shift to a five-year building program so as to place it on a "more fiscally sustainable path". Such a measure would result in ten carriers after 2040.[
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SFC William Farrell
SFC William Farrell
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I like that new car paint and smell LTC Stephen F.. Great picture.
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SFC William Farrell
SFC William Farrell
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL - Nice picture Joe. I would have loved to have seen it being built!
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
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I'm surprised this soon to be ex-president didn't scuttle the building of it.
Maybe it was he was too busy with his "social programs"... and gettin them on track.
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But it is behind schedule and the only carrier right now deployed as a Chinese one that they bought from the ukrainians before Russia annexing Crimea
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SFC William Farrell
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The Gerald R Ford is a much more appropriate name for a Navy ship than the Gabby Gifford SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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It's complete BS that they should name a ship after her!
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SFC William Farrell
SFC William Farrell
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski - Im sure the Commie in the Whitehouse had something to do with it Mark!
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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Ya think!
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