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Navy Times: LCS crew marooned in Singapore on an open-ended deployment
The embarked crew of the littoral combat ship Coronado, forward deployed to Singapore, was supposed to be home for Thanksgiving after a four- or five-month tour. But now the crew has been on board and overseas for eight months and there is no end in sight.
About 70 sailors compose Crew 204, which deployed in June for the Rim of the Pacific exercise and to replace the LCS Fort Worth at Changi Naval Base. But once the Coronado and her crew arrived in Singapore, the Navy’s top Surface Warfare Officer announced a sweeping overhaul to the LCS program's training standards that was spurred by a string of accidents, some of which were caused by crew errors.
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WNU Editor: Singapore is nice .... but expensive .... and it is still not home. I would not be surprised if most of these sailors will quit the Navy or seek reassignment when their tour is over.
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The way the article reads, they're not even doing workups (off shore exercises). Just sitting in port. The tragicomedy of the LCS continues.
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