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Friday, May 06, 2011

Army, Navy finalize transfer of JHSVs

USS Spearhead (JHSV 1)The move to transfer custody of all five Joint High Speed Vessels to the Navy was formally agreed upon Monday with the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the Navy and Army.

The transfer was approved in December during Army-Navy war fighter talks. Previously, each service was planning to buy, field and crew its own force of JHSVs.

Uniformed Army personnel had been training to crew the new ships, with the first vessel scheduled to enter service late this year. Army watercraft personnel have been reassigned, and all JHSVs will be operated by the Navy’s Military Sealift Command crewed by civilian mariners or contract mariners.

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