If the USS Gerald R. Ford stays out another 45 days, it will break the U.S. Navy deployment record. Almost a full year at sea.

Imagine being out there that long… especially with a family waiting at home.

I could do it without a wife and kids, because I heard you get free food, high paid and other things but if you got kids, why would you even join?

The current record is the USS Kitty Hawk

Deployment, about 331 days during the Vietnam War (early 1970s)

That’s almost 11 months straight deployed