USS Freedom Haunted By Inspection Woes

U.S. Navy officials are downplaying the recent failure of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Freedom to pass a special pre-ship-trial inspection, saying, among other things, that these types of reviews are more rigorous than before. But the Freedom has a checkered past when being subjected to...

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