The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer deployed last week for the first time since 2019. KPBS military reporter Andrew Dyer has more on what it took to get here and what makes this deployment important.
The Navy struggled to get the ship back to sea after a $200 million planned overhaul and maintenance availability in 2020.The ship went to sea briefly in June 2022 but then remained pier-side in San Diego until last summer, KPBS previously reported. In July of that year, the ship was destroyed in a fire that raged more than four days. The Navy was down two big-deck amphibious ships while the USS Boxer was unable to get to sea."The Navy's had to adjust its presence ... what happens is that other ships end up taking taking up the load," Martin, now a senior researcher at the Rand Corporation, said in an interview.
Martin said it's not unusual that a ship as old as the USS Boxer, which was built in the early 1990s, to have problems. What's needed, he said, are more ships.
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