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Gov. Whitmer announces new USS Lansing Navy ship

By Duncan Phenix,

2 hours ago

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will be on hand Monday morning for the announcement of a new U.S. Navy ship being named the USS Lansing.

The USS Lansing will be an expeditionary fast transport ship described by the Navy as “high-speed, shallowdraft ships capable of intra-theater personnel and cargo lift for the armed services.”

The aluminum catamaran USNS Carson City expeditionary fast transport, belonging to the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy, is the seventh Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport and will be docked for a week in the port of Barcelona, in Barcelona, on 16th August 2022. — (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The aluminum catamaran USNS Carson City expeditionary fast transport, belonging to the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy, is the seventh Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport and will be docked for a week in the port of Barcelona, in Barcelona, on 16th August 2022. — (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The USS Lansing is currently being built and is in the first official steps in the long commissioning process.

In a news conference scheduled for 9:30 Monday morning, Gov. Whitmer will be joined by U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Lansing Mayor Andy Schor.

The news conference will be live-streamed here in this story once it begins.

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