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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Norfolk-based cruiser to sail around the world

USS Normandy (CG-60)The passageways are cleanly swept and smell of fresh paint; colorful life jackets and flight deck gear is laid out in neat rows in the helicopter hanger; and the forecastle and fantail are draped with tightly coiled lines: Normandy is preparing for INSURV.

In the life of most ships, preparing for the Board of Inspection and Survey inspection is all consuming. But not on Normandy. The crew doesn't have the luxury of focusing solely on this major inspection.

Over the past two years, the cruiser has been transformed from a quarter-century old ship, with an outdated combat system and worn down engineering plant, to one of the most lethal warships in the surface line.

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