(July 22, 2017) Jim Harbaugh, head football coach at the University of Michigan, and fans chant their school’s fight song before the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) commissioning ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Ford is the lead ship of the Ford-class aircraft carriers, and the first new aircraft carrier design in 40 years.

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