NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Nov. 14, 2018) Capt. Matthew Kawas, from Matawan, New Jersey, USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) departing reactor officer, requests permission to go ashore from Capt. John J. Cummings, Ford's commanding officer, after being rung ashore. Ford is currently undergoing its post-shakedown availability at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding.

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