Navy bumps up move of ARG to Mayport

After choking off funding to make the Navy’s second-largest East Coast base a homeport for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Navy signaled Friday that Jacksonville, Fla., will remain a sizable homeport by shifting an amphibious ready group there over the next three years.

All three ships are being relocated early from Norfolk, Va., to Naval Station Mayport, the Defense Department said in a news release.

“I am very pleased that the Navy is able condense the time horizon for the arrival of the Mayport ARG,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said in the statement.

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