Engineers Tried for Hours to Restart the “Dead” Warship — Then the Admiral Called a Retired Sailor No One Remembered

sky over the water. The breeze came in off the ocean carrying salt and the particular smell of the sea at dusk, and somewhere beyond the horizon, where the water was dark and deep and the distance was too great to see, the USS Gerald R. Ford was out there doing what she was built to do.

And Harold Miller—seventy-eight years old, worn jacket, battered continue reading …