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USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the lead ship of her class of United States Navy aircraft carriers. The ship is named after the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier Monterey in the Pacific Theater.
Work began on 11 August 2005, when Northrop Grumman held a ceremonial steel cut for a 15-ton plate that forms part of a side shell unit of the carrier. The keel of Gerald R. Ford was laid down on 13 November 2009. Christened on 9 November 2013.
The Ford was built to replace the old decommissioned USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which ended her 51 years of active service in December 2012. Scheduled for delivery in 2015, Gerald R. Ford was delivered to the Navy on 31 May 2017 and it was formally commissioned by President Donald Trump on 22 July 2017. Her first deployment departed October 4, 2022. As of 2017, she is the world's largest aircraft carrier, and the largest warship ever constructed.
In 2006, while Ford was still alive, Senator John Warner of Virginia proposed to amend a 2007 defense-spending bill to declare that CVN-78 "shall be named the USS Gerald Ford." The final version, signed by President George W. Bush on 17 October 2006, declared only that it "is the sense of Congress that ... CVN-78 should be named the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford." It is typically non-binding and does not carry the force of law, the Navy was not required to name the ship after Ford.
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