Lawmakers: Navy Should Accelerate Carrier Move - Click on Detroit

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a joint letter to Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio and Rep. Ander Crenshaw strongly urged him to advance the Navy's decision to homeport a nuclear aircraft carrier at Naval Station Mayport from 2019 to 2016.

"You may hear from a few persistent critics of the project, but as you know, the decision to disperse the East Coast carrier fleet has been examined and re-examined by the Navy, Department of Defense and Government Accountability Office," Nelson, Rubio and Crenshaw wrote. "Every study affirmed and reaffirmed, as in the case of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, what the Navy has maintained all along -- that dispersing our capital ships is in our best national security interest.""Rather than belaboring a validated decision, we ask that you consider our April 4 request to Secretary Ray Mabus to advance the carrier move from (Fiscal Year 2019) to (Fiscal Year 2016). We believe this would reduce the risk to our carrier fleet from a possible terrorist attack or natural disaster, and once and for all put this issue to rest."

The Navy said in May it planned to maintain its 2019 timeline for moving a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier from Virginia to Florida despite pressure from Florida lawmakers to speed up the move by three years.The Navy wants to move a carrier from Virginia because Norfolk is currently the only home port for all five East Coast-based aircraft carriers.Defense officials contend that's a national security concern, citing threats of manmade calamity, terrorism and natural disasters. The West Coast has five carriers based in three locations in California and Washington.The port near Jacksonville previously served as home to the conventionally powered John F. Kennedy, but it was decommissioned in 2007. The port needs to be upgraded before it can serve as a home port for nuclear carriers.



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