Michael Ray
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
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Michael Ray earned a B.A. in history from Michigan State University in 1995. He was a teacher in the Chicago suburbs and Seoul, South Korea, prior to joining Britannica as a freelancer in 2000. Hired as a full-time copy editor in 2003, he currently works as an assistant managing editor leading the Geography and History team.
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USS Gerald R. Ford, U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier commissioned in 2017. It is the lead ship in the Gerald R. Ford class, and, with a displacement of more than 100,000 tons and a length of 1,106 feet (337 meters), it is the largest warship afloat. U.S. Nimitz-class carriers debuted in…
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