What is USS Ronald Reagan?
{{DISPLAYTITLE:USS ''Ronald Reagan''}} [[File:USSRONALDREAGANgoodshot.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''USS Ronald Reagan'' (2004)]] '''USS ''Ronald Reagan''''' is a [[nuclear reactor|nuclear-powered]] [[naval]] [[ship]] in the service of the [[United States Navy]]. The ninth ship of her class,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=37278|title=USS Ronald Reagan Departs on Third Deployment|date=20 May 2008|accessdate=2008-06-24|publisher=United States Navy|archive-date=2008-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601205535/http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=37278|url-status=dead}}</ref> she is named in honor of former President [[Ronald Reagan]], President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reaganfoundation.org/details_t.aspx?session_args=B27539D4-A329-4A16-95D2-CC0565879534&p=LM2002AT&tx=1212&h1=3&h2=7&sw=0&lm=libraryandmuseum&args_a=cms&args_b=10&argsb=Y|title=USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)|publisher=www.Reagan Foundation.org|accessdate=November 8, 2013|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305013811/http://www.reaganfoundation.org/details_t.aspx?session_args=B27539D4-A329-4A16-95D2-CC0565879534&p=LM2002AT&tx=1212&h1=3&h2=7&sw=0&lm=libraryandmuseum&args_a=cms&args_b=10&argsb=Y|url-status=dead}}</ref> Upon her [[Ship naming and launching|christening]] in 2001, she was the first ship to be named for a former president still living at the time.<ref>{{Cite news|publisher=CNN|title=USS ''Ronald Reagan'' Commemorates Former President's 90th Birthday|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/04/sm.06.html|date=4 March 2001|accessdate=2008-01-24|archive-date=2008-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025142405/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/04/sm.06.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of May 2012 the ship is operationally part of [[Carrier Strike Group Nine]] and administratively under the command of Commander, Naval Air Forces Pacific/[[Commander, Naval Air Forces]]. The two administ