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The Navy released its annual inactivation schedule message last week, listing 29 ships it plans to inactivate and decommission in fiscal year 2023, barring intervention from Congress. The list includes two Los Angeles-class submarines, five Ticonderoga-class cruisers (CGs), nine Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), four Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships (LSDs), and several other Military Sealift Command roll on/roll off cargo ships, replenishment oilers, Expeditionary Transfer Dock ships (ESDs), and Cyclone-class patrol ships. This is in line with the Navy’s…
