USS Jack H. Lucas, First Flight III Destroyer, Commissioned
The Navy commissioned its first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer at Tampa, Florida, on October 7, 2023.
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Ship maintenance in the Navy is organized around scheduled availability periods at public and private shipyards, and successive GAO and Navy reports through 2024-2025 documented a persistent pattern of late starts, overruns, and an accumulating backlog that costs the fleet thousands of operating days.
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