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NORFOLK, Va. — Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) completed an accelerated, multi‑ship maintenance effort in March to ensure two guided‑missile destroyers were able to begin operations in support of their scheduled deployments.
The push compressed normally sequential work that would span over two years, into overlapping phases in under three months, requiring MARMC teams, contractors and ship’s force to execute dozens of major repairs simultaneously aboard USS Gonzalez (DDG 66) and USS Ross (DDG 71).
Throughout the repair period, MARMC’s Production Department (Code 900) demonstrated their responsiveness and agility that enabled the strike group to meet its operational timeline, completing 66 intermediate-level jobs aboard Gonzalez in just nine days, and 120 jobs aboard Ross in a little over three weeks.
“This was a coordinated, all‑hands effort to deliver two fully combat-ready destroyers back to the fleet on a compressed schedule,” said Capt. Megan Thomas, MARMC production department head. “The teams moved with urgency, and I was impressed with the way the team responded. They worked around the clock to deliver warships ready to enter the fight.”
MARMC’s production department is home to nearly 800 Sailors who work alongside a staff of civilian employees to perform intermediate level repairs across the waterfront. This collaboration with the technical experts creates a training pipeline for the Sailors that directly impacts mission.
MARMC, a field activity under Program Acquisition Executive Industrial Operations (PAE IO), provides surface ship maintenance, management and oversight of private sector maintenance and fleet technical assistance to ships in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
| Date Taken: | 04.01.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 04.01.2026 14:22 |
| Story ID: | 561749 |
| Location: | NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, US |
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