NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (May 13, 2016) --Cmdr. Gilbert Mucke, assigned to Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), poses with his protégé, Lt. Cmdr. Michael Stone following a retirement ceremony in the ship's forecastle. Ford is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers currently under construction by Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Connor Loessin/Released)

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