Marines hindered by Navy's amphibious warfare ship maintenance delays
Nearly half of the amphibious warfare ships Marines need to deploy often are unavailable due to maintenance, according to a government watchdog. How the Navy currently manages those repairs means jarheads will continue to deploy late to the fight.
The Dec. 3 Government Accountability Office report, which detailed an audit from April 2023 to December 2024 at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, and Naval Base San Diego, California, provided a decade's worth of data regarding underperforming amphibious warfare ships.
In the report, Marine Corps data from 2011 to 2020 showed that the specific class of ships were available for operational tasks only 46% of the time.
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Earlier this year, meanwhile, the Boxer and America amphibious readiness groups - and their associated Marine Expeditionary Units - were hampered with missed exercises and delayed deployments due to the unavailability of the vessels.
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