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House Appropriators Criticize Navy For Destroyer, LCS Decommissioning Plan

Monday, July 12th, 2021

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House Appropriators Criticize Navy For Destroyer, LCS Decommissioning Plan

The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Arleigh Burke-class destroyer conducting builders trials in February 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The House Appropriations Committee criticized the Navy for cutting a destroyer from the previously planned fiscal year 2022 budget request and its plan to decommission additional littoral combat ships (LCSs) in the newly released defense appropriations bill report. The report, released Monday, said the committee “is dismayed by the Navy’s decision to remove one DDG–51 Flight III Destroyer from the planned fiscal year 2022 budget request.” The FY ‘22 budget request previously received a negative reaction from the congressional defense…

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