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Fleet Forces And SecNav Argue For More Maintenance Yards

Thursday, January 12th, 2023

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Fleet Forces And SecNav Argue For More Maintenance Yards

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) arrives at Norfolk Naval Shipyard July 7, 2020 for an Extended Carrier Incremental Availability following a seven-month deployment. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Top Navy officials this week promoted the idea of adding more public shipyards to improve ship maintenance. Speaking during the annual Surface Navy Association symposium on Wednesday, Adm. Daryl Caudle, Commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, emphatically said there is a good argument for the need to add at least a fifth public shipyard. “Of course. I need six! I need enough capacity in our shipyards to drive the backlog down to zero…I can today, if I had the backlog…

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