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Friday, March 30, 2012

House lawmakers to review Navy ship retirements

[USS Leyte Gulf (Ticonderoga-class)]House lawmakers Thursday pressed Navy brass over the service’s plan to yank several warships out of the fleet early, a decision that could have serious consequences for the Navy’s new shipbuilding strategy.

“There is a lot of concern about that,” Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) told service leaders during a Wednesday hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces.

Full committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) “will be closely examining” the Navy’s ship-retirement plan, said spokesman John Noonan.

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