U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said during a visit to Jacksonville, Florida that moving an aircraft carrier to Naval Station Mayport has only been deferred and not canceled.
“Even though we had to defer moving a carrier to Mayport, because of purely budgetary considerations, we remain absolutely committed to strategic dispersal of our forces on the East Coast,” Mabus said.
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