{"id":442833,"date":"2026-08-25T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:40:22","slug":"san-diegos-uss-boxer-to-undergo-150-million-upgrade-when-it-returns-from-middle-east-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442833\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s USS Boxer to undergo $150 million upgrade when it returns from Middle East \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Diego-based amphibious assault ship USS Boxer will undergo at least $150 million in repairs, maintenance and upgrades when it returns from the Middle East, where it is currently a key part of the U.S. involvement in Operation Epic Fury, the Defense Department says.<\/p>\n

The new contract<\/a> indicates that it could ultimately cost as much as $180 million to service the 31-year-old ship, which has experienced numerous mechanical problems in recent years that affected its ability to go on earlier deployments.<\/p>\n

The 844-foot Boxer is the flagship<\/a> of an amphibious ready group that has, at times, included two other San Diego-based amphibious ships, the USS Comstock and USS Portland. All three ships are carrying Marines from Camp Pendleton\u2019s 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit.<\/p>\n

The Boxer group deployed from San Diego in March. The Navy has not indicated when it will return home, nor has it said when the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, a lead combatant in the war in Iran,\u00a0will return to Naval Air Station North Island.<\/p>\n

The carrier has been on deployment for about nine months, mostly in the Middle East. It has been the source of enormous attention in recent weeks due to concerns<\/a> that the length of Lincoln\u2019s deployment, as well as conditions aboard ship, have generated a lot of stress among members of its 5,000-person crew.<\/p>\n

The Navy has not said whether Lincoln will briefly visit Guam or Hawaii on its way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego-based amphibious assault ship USS Boxer will undergo at least $150 million in repairs, maintenance and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,5493,181,23,1703,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-442833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-coronado","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}