{"id":443882,"date":"2026-08-26T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:54:16","slug":"san-diego-based-uss-boxer-headed-to-dry-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443882\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Based USS Boxer Headed To Dry Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy says the San Diego based USS Boxer will undergo massive upgrades when it returns from the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ship left San Diego in March to support Operation Epic Fury.\u00a0The Defense Department says upgrades will include maintenance to propulsion and rudders, general structural repairs and modernization at a cost of at least 150-million dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old ship has experienced numerous mechanical problems in recent years that affected its deployment availability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Boxer has a crew of about two thousand.\u00a0The Navy has not said when it will return to San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Navy says the San Diego based USS Boxer will undergo massive upgrades when it returns from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5923,74,76,75,103950],"class_list":["post-443882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-navy","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-uss-boxer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443882","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=443882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}