Delbert D. Black's three-month deployment tested a new Navy concept of cycling out a carrier strike group's destroyers during deployment.
How the brand-new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and its largely green crew found their sea legs together.
The USS Gerald R. Ford returned home on Jan. 17.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford to sail closer to Israel the day after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
By Tara Copp, AP
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