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First quarter revenue slipped 1.2% to $1.39 billion because of a lower volume of work on the the refueling and complex overhaul of USS George Washington, construction of the carrier John F. Kennedy and maintenance on USS Gerald R. Ford.
The Navy has two investigations underway. One is looking at the three April deaths and the circumstances immediately preceding them. The other seeks answers to more extensive questions about what sailors experience while their ship is in the yard and what sorts of changes might help.
Thomas Nelson Community College and Newport News Shipbuilding’s Apprentice School have been role models for expanding and diversifying apprenticeships, said Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Newport News.
The four-month mission of Norfolk-based USS Forrest Sherman and USS Mitscher and Mayport’s USS The Sullivans and USS Donald Cook marked the first time since 2nd Fleet’s reactivation in 2018 that it exercised operational command and control of deployed ships.
Sailors at the Navy’s only active-duty cargo-wrangling unit, at Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, keep their go-bags packed, ready to go on a mission on 72 hours notice — missions that can take them to the ends of the earth.