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The Navy will collect plank scores in this round to help ensure its scoring tables are accurate, said Vice Adm. John Nowell, chief of naval personnel, during a Facebook live townhall event.
While the Navy mandates that squadrons maintain a mission capability rate of 80 percent, the Poseidon’s mission capability rate ranged from 53 to 70 percent from October 2018 to March 2020.