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As commanding officer of Carrier Air Wing 8, Capt. Daryl Trent leads the pilots and sailors who fly off the the Ford, and who have been busy perfecting operations with nearly two dozen new systems on the first of its class carrier, setting standards that will shape Navy air operations for decades to come. ....
Virginia sailor who enlisted fresh out of high school takes command of USS Ford's air wing dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By DAVE RESS | Daily Press | Published: May 23, 2021 (Tribune News Service) For the past 1½ years, on 18 trips off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, sailors and shipyard workers from Newport News have prepped the Navy’s newest carrier for deployment 27% over its original budget and years behind schedule. The costliest single item on the Department of Defense’s shopping list, the USS Gerald R Ford has been on a fast track to launch a series of new technologies intended to boost the Navy’s striking power for at least the next 50 years. It is a fast track that started two decades ago and has seen delays installing key components of the ship, as on-shore testing revealed unexpected problems that required hundreds of millions of dollars to fix and that forced workers at Newport News Shipbuilding to redo finished parts of the 1,092-foot long carrier, hundreds of pages of government budget documents, Navy assessments, oversight reports and Congressional he ....
Years late and billions more: The USS Gerald R. Ford is a lesson in how the Navy builds ships dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ford crew's efforts set to shorten time until the carrier is ready to deploy, strike group CO says pilotonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pilotonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.