Now the 3rd world is shooting missiles at Aegis DDGs.
Interesting ship and if not used as a command ship or repurposed will probably head to the mothball fleet like the other ESBs. Sad when you have poor forward looking vision and purposely forget the true mission of The Navy. Same thinking brought us LCS, Zumwalt, San Antonio all pretty much hulls without mission in the 21st century reality of things.
One of the stranger USN ships we've been aboard following her commissioning ceremony at NAS North Island on a very cloudy 17 February 2024.
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