Having a U.S. Representative from Alabama serving as Chair of the House Armed Service Committee didn't prevent that committee from voting to go along with a Pentagon plan that will result in the ship named for the capital city---The USS Montgomery---from being sold to another country, possibly Mexico.
GOP Rep. Mike Rogers (R-3rd Dist.) was named HASC Chair in January.The 3rd District doesn't include any of Montgomery, so Rogers has no dog in the fight.
"The Navy has floated the possibility of transferring the LCS ships it wants to decommission to allies. USNI News understands that Mexico is interested in the ships.
The Navy’s FY 2024 budget proposal sought to decommission 11 ships: dock landing ships USS Germantown (LSD-42), USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) and USS Tortuga (LSD-46); cruisers USS Antietam (CG-54), USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55), USS Cowpens (CG-63) and USS Shiloh (CG-67); Independence-class LCSs USS Jackson (LCS-6) and USS Montgomery (LCS-8); and Los Angeles-class submarine USS San Juan (SSN-751). Jackson and Montgomery – built in Mobile, Ala., by Austal USA – were commissioned in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and each slated for 25-year service lives." (From a story on the USNI Website.)
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