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Sailors say the ships are too old and broken to do their job.
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The Big Story
Mon. Aug 5, 2019
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As tensions heat up in the Persian Gulf, the Navy’s minesweeping fleet may once again be called into action, but its sailors say the ships are too old and broken to do the job. “We are essentially the ships that the Navy forgot.”
by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller
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