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The Navy’s fiscal year 2025 budget request seeks to retire 10 ships earlier than planned after a hull-by-hull analysis, officials said. The Navy is looking to decommission the Ticonderoga-class USS Shiloh (CG-67) and Lake Erie (CG-70), both within two to three years of planned service lives; the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships USS Jackson (LCS-6) and USS Montgomery (LCS-8); the USS Germantown (LSD-42) Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship, which is a year out from its expected service life; the four oldest…
