The USS Freedom (LCS-1) departed San Diego on Friday en route to Singapore for an eight-month deployment and the first major oversees operation for the first of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships. Freedom, sporting a new camouflage paint job, and its crew of 53 are expected to arrive in the tiny Southeast Asian nation in mid-April after making port calls in Pearl Harbor, Guam and other possible spots. The deployment is an opportunity for the Navy to assess the ship’s…
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