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The Navy’s top officer said up to half of surface ship maintenance delay days are tied to several vessels the service wants to decommission. “We've gone from 7,700 delay days out of shipyards…down to a little over 3,000 today. We are nowhere near where we need to be. I will say that between 40 and 50 percent of those delay days I can attribute to six or seven ships that we'd like to decommission because they are old, and they're…
