NORFOLK — The Navy plans to trim its fleet by at least 10 more ships this fiscal year as it drops below 280 for the first time in modern days.
Three of the ships on the decommissioning schedule, announced in a message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael G. Mullen this week, are based in Hampton Roads.
They are the 40-year-old amphibious transport dock Austin, which will be used for spare parts or scrapped, and the 20-year-old salvage-and-rescue ships Grasp and Grapple, which will be decommissioned, then transferred to the Military Sealift Command and manned by federal civil service crews.
The Navy has a deployable battle force of 281 ships today and expects to commission seven ships into service during the current fiscal year.
That would leave 278 ships in service when the 10 are taken off the rolls.
New ships entering the fleet this fiscal year are three guided missile destroyers, three amphibious transport docks and one fast attack submarine.
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