The USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier will join the USS Gerald R Ford carrier strike group, that's locked and loaded in the Eastern Mediterranean.
At first, the boy was thought to have a cold, but staff at the hospital, the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, later found that he also had a fever, according to the agency.
To put its size into perspective, the USS Gerald R. Ford is larger then the Empire State Building and can carry enough jet fuel to fuel a small airport for a month.
Austin said he had directed the movement of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which consists of an aircraft carrier, a guided missile cruiser and four guided missile destroyers, to the Eastern Mediterranean.
Number 1 At 1,106 feet in length and a displacement in length and a displacement of over of over 100,000 tons, the USS Gerald R. the USS Gerald R. Ford is the largest aircraft carrier in the world.