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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

DepSecDef Visits, Criticizes Littoral Combat Ship; Fox Replacement Is LCS Backer

USS FreedomIt’s a delicate time for the Navy’s controversial Littoral Combat Ship, largely because of acting Deputy Defense Secretary Christine Fox.

It was Fox who wrote the memo directing the Navy to slash its long-term LCS buy from 52 vessels to 32.

So we’d love to know how strained the smiles were yesterday when Fox stepped aboard the first LCS, the Lockheed Martin-built USS Freedom, which recently returned to San Diego from its malfunction-plagued maiden deployment to Singapore.

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