Boatswain's Mate Seaman Brodie Winstead, from Knoxville, Illinois, assigned to the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. FordÕs (CVN 78) deck department, operates a sliding padeye in the hangar bay during a replenishment-at-sea with USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13), March 30, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting routine operations and training in order to maintain readiness. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the Navy's capacity to project power on a global scale.

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Keywords: evers, medgar, rap, replenishment--sea, usns