Sixty-three percent of executive officers said that insufficient manning made it “moderately to extremely difficult to complete repairs while underway."
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across several Chinese military ships in international waters near the Aleutian Islands.
'I think that the naming of a ship like this is going to bring, not closure, but it’s going to bring some sort of honor and homage to what was lost there.'
The troubling revelations about the Independence-class littoral combat ships come as the Navy continues to grapple with a class-wide transmission issue in the Freedom-class variants.