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Article: NAVY NAMES LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP USS FORT WORTH
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following press release:
Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter announced March 6 that the newest littoral combat ship (LCS) will be named USS Fort Worth.
The announcement continues the practice of naming the agile LCS vessels after American midsized cities, small towns and communities. For more than 150 years, the patriotic citizens of Fort Worth have supported the Navy and all of our men and women in uniform. Home to ranger outposts, training facilities, aviation depots, and defense manufacturing, Fort Worth has answered the call whenever our nation needed it.
Designated LCS-3, the future USS Fort Worth is designed to defeat littoral threats ...