{"id":21349,"date":"2026-05-13T03:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/21349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:22:05","slug":"srf-jrmc-continues-to-deliver-warships-to-fleet-on-time-u-s-indo-pacific-command-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/21349\/","title":{"rendered":"SRF-JRMC Continues to Deliver Warships to Fleet On Time > U.S. Indo-Pacific Command > News Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The successful Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) maintenance availability reinforces SRF-JRMC\u2019s critical role in generating combat-ready ships to support U.S. 7th Fleet operations.<\/p>\n<p>This year, SRF-JRMC has delivered all seven of its completed ships to the fleet on time or ahead of schedule. From January through April, SRF-JRMC returned two mine countermeasures ships, three destroyers, and an amphibious transport dock to the U.S. 7th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The timely and successful work by the U.S. Navy&#8217;s primary ship repair team in Japan underscores its commitment to ensuring U.S. 7th Fleet remains a lethal, mission-ready force in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Diligently preserving, maintaining, and employing combat ready ships in the Indo-Pacific is a core focus of U.S. Pacific Fleet, reflecting teamwork among Sailors and civilian maintenance personnel. The CNO availabilities brought together the ship&#8217;s crew, SRF-JRMC\u2019s Japanese master labor contractors, local Japanese contractors and U.S.-based companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our success this year is a testament to the dedication and professionalism of the ships\u2019 crews, the ship superintendents and their teams, and the entire SRF-JRMC organization,\u201d said Capt. Wendel Penetrante, SRF-JRMC commanding officer. \u201cManaging availabilities, with the recent increase in operational tempo, demonstrates their exceptional capability. We continue to meet the spirit of the command&#8217;s motto, &#8216;Nan Demo Dekimasu!&#8217;\u201d, which means &#8216;we can do anything!&#8217; in Japanese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy maximizes its ability to maintain a reliable presence in the region by conducting complex repairs at forward locations. This demonstrates a long-term commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor over 75 years, SRF-JRMC has been the linchpin of U.S. naval operations in the Indo-Pacific region by providing intermediate and depot-level repair for the ships of U.S. 7th Fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The successful Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) maintenance availability reinforces SRF-JRMC\u2019s critical role in generating combat-ready ships to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,11774],"class_list":{"0":"post-21349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-news-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}