USS Gerald R. Ford Replenishment At Sea

ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 5, 2018) The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) comes alongside the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195) for a replenishment-at-sea. The Navy's newest aicraft carrier, Gerald R. Ford, is underway conducting test and evaluation operations. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Connor D. Loessin/Released)

[@davejnathan10]

I'm not an american, but i'm always rooting for you guys!

[@osvaldozapata7934]

Thank you, my friend.

[@crackinthesky]

Thank you Dave, the best is yet to come. Trump/Pence 2020, Pence/Nikki Haley 2024.

[@dejiamoo]

Go navy!

[@riff2072]

Beat Army!

[@nahviet5286]

I love US Navy power..

[@darklord1134]

Superb video thanks for the upload .

[@axeaddiction796]

God Bless our troops

[@bogthing1]

Beautifully shot video. Things seem remarkably informal in the modern Navy, but I guess it's got to be that way...

[@johnquilter7620]

Yes, We did night unreps all the time on Yankee Station Gulf of Tonkin 1971-73, USS Wichita AOR-1

[@skyhawk212cva19]

And we thank you for it. Former USS Hancock CVA-19 sailor.

[@donaldstone540]

The Wicked Witch

[@chuckboyle8456]

Very nice evolution, well recorded and edited. Thanks. TAO is headed for the barn...it’s Miller Time MSC! BZ all hands. Carry on.

[@francoisdesbois7876]

Splandid maneuver. Superb pictures, good framing and great soundtrack !!! When it's good, it's good ....

[@user-ih2xv9lo4c]

So good I love USA

[@troymills9437]

Great video! Trying to recall if we ever did unreps at night way back when, circa early to mid 80s.

[@jimwjohnq.public]

We did them every 3 nights on our Med cruise. USS America (CV 66). Came alongside the USS Cannesteo (AO 99).

[@engineclinic]

We often did them at night on the PYRO back in the 80s. Never had white lights on though.

[@royyates1558]

Aah memories uss saratoga cv60

[@golfbuddy45]

CV60 USS SARATOGA 1965 thru 1967

[@RampantFury925]

Hopefully one of her sister ships wil be named Saratoga.

[@phosgene11]

What other occupation could one have had where you can go on you tube and relive the experience to a tee?! Nimitz '76-'79

[@dancujo5591]

Forrestal CVA-59, we did unreps at night quite a lot. 85-90

[@hammerslamper4125]

That is simply an awesome video and that is at least 12 hour working party

[@Cafe-hr5uz]

Spent many hours along side oilers & carriers replenishing.

[@marylagua5079]

Go Navy!! Stay safe.

[@cdgodsell]

Sooooo thats what a real navy looks like! God bless the U.S.

[@mangodave45]

I only remember 1 at night refueling and 1 emergency breakaway in 3 years, no coincidence? Night and 22ft seas, no bueno.

[@charletonzimmerman4205]

Ahh, Memories, Electrician Mate, unrep, Station Night, Starboard, CV-67, "Bingo" fuel in Bunkers, 1980 North Atlantic

[@jeffd6527]

One of the many things I miss about the navy, doing vertreps on the shitty kitty.

[@golfbuddy45]

I have never understood why some people would THUMBS DOWN any video on our US NAVY - - unless they just plain do not like our US NAVY . . For those of you who have never been to sea the TANKER/FREIGHTER will maintain a constant course and speed and flying the BALL-DIAMOND-BALL signal on the mast that is the International signal meaning RESTRICTED OR UNABLE TO MANEUVER....While significantly longer and taller the aircraft carrier is still far more maneuverable than the tanker/freighter . . once the supply lines are passed between the two ships the carrier will also fly the same signal. We often had a destroyer or frigate on the other side of the tanker refueling/resupplying at the same time. Sometimes we would even pass a person across between ships in case of a medical emergency or other special need. By the way the aircraft carriers are all nuclear now so the only FUEL they are transferring is JP FUEL which is the fuel needed for the JET AIRCRAFT . . . There are also occasions where the CARRIER is the supply ship and a Destroyer or Frigate will come alongside to get supplies or fuel . .. . . . and when all this occurs during rough seas the experience is quite an awesome sight . . . .

[@theancientsancients1769]

golfbuddy45 Have you realised there there are billions of none Americans online ? Or you think the internet is national tv?

[@mitchgrove4086]

Wow! I actually didn't expect to find that it was the carrier making the maneuvers! I do feel silly that I was stuck wondering what it was that they were piping over. Of course I knew that the Gerald R. Ford was nuclear, but I completely discounted the aircraft on board. So why is the freighter 'restricted' is it simply the fact that it's so small and has a massive, fluid load on board, sloshing around in the seas?

[@vegass04]

Well you should understand that there are many trolls out there that don't like us or our military at all. Most of them are jelaous or trolling...

[@ihl8608]

the dislikes would be liberals.

[@Enbarr11]

The dislikes are foreign haters and American liberals who would rather see us spend the naval budget on bird-chopping windmills and composting toilets.

[@alpharius4208]

Can we ughhhhhh... build 10 more of these floating fortresses

[@moxie878]

What...no breakaway song?!?! That's what I was waiting for is the breakaway song.

[@engineclinic]

Why does the AO have white lights on? We only ran red lights for night unreps.

[@ajdprotocol]

What a Beauty She must be WOW

[@Captleemo]

I read where the USS Gerald R. Ford was having some problems with the propulsion bearings. Have they gotten that issue resolved?

[@daveboydell2896]

They will just throw more Billions at it, hope you can afford private Medicare cause your Country would sooner build killing machines than care for it's people.

[@Prican0_0]

I was on station 7

[@sgt.murphy9788]

Wo sind die ganzen begleitschiffe

[@ihl8608]

Go Ford.😀

[@octavio675]

*Fuel* replenishment? Thought it ran on an A1B nuclear reactor and had no diesel or otherwise gas propulsion means.

[@johnmckisson7807]

It looks like they were in training on a shakedown. Probably filling AV Gas.

[@itsmartini135]

Still need to take on fuel so they can refuel jets, and small boys, etc.

[@ElectroAtletico]

Wow that was slow. It would take my FF less than 10 minutes after Romeo closed up to be alongside, rigged, and pumping.

[@Johnnycdrums]

UREP Corpen was always 12-14 KT's, that was about SPD 7.

[@filippoforni6781]

This is what you can afford with 4.3% military budget. In Italy it is 1.4%. I think the new italian conservative government should rise it up and make Italy powerful and respected in the Mediterranean again.

[@CAPITALIST1000000000]

Chem trail are everywhere

[@edwardoalvarez5566]

Watch out for Chinese warships.

[@vegass04]

And where are the tug boats?? Oh, I almost forgot, this is not a shitty Russian aircraft carrier that breaks down 3 times during its deployment..