![The arrival of the New York, with 31 officers and 326 enlisted sailors and their families, will be the first growth the base has seen since the destroyer Farragut arrived in 2005 USS New York](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2Gd16rjVfyO8eU8RBr7KkxqVNd-yvKXE4LEeLdauriyo4M7kEgg6R4oKng-FwBqan36NbwiPxUnHvZzf31cEjVUMhR4mdVR15ZJma9cukQwWy4C6H7GrOPgdNe60sHVyGJU3/s200/USS_New-York.jpg)
It’s the first move in the transition of the three-ship Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group to the Northern Florida port. The amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima and the dock landing ship Fort McHenry are scheduled to start calling the base home by the end of fiscal year 2014.
What’s not clear yet is exactly when the other two ships will make the move, though Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert told Navy Times Nov. 14 that the moves will happen on schedule. The money — which was allocated in the 2013 defense budget — won’t be impacted by sequestration.
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