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.
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.
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.
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.