WASHINGTON — The USS Fort Worth, one of a relatively new class of nimble combat ships that can navigate shallow waters, is in the line of fire – from the U.S. Navy.
And U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, the ship’s sponsor, isn’t having it.
The former Fort Worth mayor, who is now the senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, recently prevented the Navy from decommissioning the USS Fort Worth and two other littoral combat ships, the USS Detroit and USS Little Rock, only weeks before they were to be retired. Granger blocked the move in the massive funding bill President Joe Biden signed March 15.
