An F/A-18F attached to the “Black Lions” of Strike fighter Squadron (VFA) 213, approaches USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) flight deck, as an MH-60S Sea Hawk, attached to the “Tridents” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 9 prepares to land on the ship’s flight deck, while the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) steams in the Atlantic Ocean, April 18, 2021. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting its final independent steaming event of post-delivery test and trials.

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