The Navy is testing out a program to embark therapy dogs aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. The Navy cut a submarine from its spending plan, but is pouring billions of dollars into supporting suppliers and helping increase their production rates. The Navy's fiscal 2025 budget request prioritizes near-term readiness and lethality and delays a number of larger, longer-term modernization programs. The Navy and Marine Corps will move forward with the current Flight II LPD amphibious ship design, rather than a scaled-down, cheaper one DoD pushed for. The military services on Friday will lay out plans to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for addressing safety concerns stemming from a fatal 2023 crash. Delbert D. Black's three-month deployment tested a new Navy concept of cycling out a carrier strike group's destroyers during deployment. How the brand-new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and its largely green crew found their sea legs together. The USS Gerald R. Ford returned home on Jan. 17. Capt. Geoffry Patterson became commanding officer of the submarine’s blue crew in May 2022. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford to sail closer to Israel the day after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. By Tara Copp, AP
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