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Navy To Deploy Freedom

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Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Navy has decided to deploy the USS Freedom (LCS-1) two years earlier than planned to begin integration of the Littoral Combat Ship into the fleet and to incorporate lessons learned into future deployments, according to the service. Earlier this summer, Chief of Naval Operation (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead directed both the his staff and U.S. Fleet Forces Command to look at an early, short-term deployment for Freedom (Defense Daily, June 15). Besides determining the feasibility of deploying…

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