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THE MISSION WAS ACCOMPLISHED, THOUGH: Check Out How Rusty And Battered USS Stout Looks After Spendi?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE MISSION WAS ACCOMPLISHED, THOUGH: Check Out How Rusty And Battered USS Stout Looks After Spending A Record 215 Days At Sea. “It’s amazing what the crew of the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Stout (DDG-55) has pulled off. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world, impacting their fellow sailors on other ships in unprecedented ways, Stout sailed on… And on… And on. This ship stayed at sea for a whopping 215 days straight and she has the wear and tear to show for it. The fighting ship looks like a set from a dystopian naval thriller, streaked in rust, her hull dinged and battered from the hard deployment.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 19, 2020 (boomark / email).