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Navy Studying New Hospital Ship Needs, Has Made Plans For SLEP

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Navy Studying New Hospital Ship Needs, Has Made Plans For SLEP
The People's Liberation Army (Navy) hospital ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866), the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7) and the Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310) maneuver into formation for a photo exercise during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014. (U.S. Navy photo)

The Navy has commissioned a Requirements Evaluations Team to examine what the future Navy fleet needs in a hospital ship and distributed hospital capability, top Navy officials said in a hearing last Thursday.James ‘Hondo’ Geurts, the assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, assured the House Armed Services subcommittee on Seapower that “there is no plan to erode the hospital ship capacity we have.”He explained the 30-year shipbuilding plan showing one of the two ships going away…

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