ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 21, 2023) Aviation Machinist's Mate 1st Class Terry Bauer, left, from St. Cloud, Minnesota, assigned to the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) aircraft intermediate maintenance department's (AIMD) quality assurance division, supervises the routine maintenance on the afterburner of an F/A-18 jet engine, March 21, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy�s capacity to project power on a global scale. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Arroyo)