NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Jan. 30, 2019) Seaman Blake Johnsen, from Sioux City, Iowa, right, helps Seaman Elias Bell, from Fresno, California, left, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) deck department, tie a messenger line to a mooring line during Ford's first fast cruise of 2019. Ford is currently undergoing its post-shakedown availability at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding.

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