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Navy relieves commander of littoral combat ship on deployment

The Navy relieved the commanding officer of a littoral combat ship deployed to the Middle East, 5th Fleet officials announced. Cmdr. Adam Ochs was relieved as the commanding officer of USS Santa ...

The US Navy Is Repairing Freedom-Class Combat Ships At Sea Now (And Here's Why It Matters)

Much of the maintenance and repair work performed on an LCS is typically completed by outside contractors, but ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Commander of San Diego’s USS Santa Barbara relieved of duty for unspecified reasons

Adam Ochs, commander of the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara, was relieved of duty on Thursday “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command” the high-speed vessel, the ...
al.com

Rising Tides: The ship that changed Mobile and the end of an era

Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...

End of an era: The last Littoral Combat Ship built in Mobile has left for open waters

The future USS Pierre, the last of 19 Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships built by Austal USA, makes its final departure ...