The warship was able to remain in service longer than normal because it used rotating crews while sailing in the Indo-Pacific
The littoral combat ship Charleston returned to Naval Base San Diego Wednesday following a deployment that lasted for an unusually long time because the ship used rotating crews.
Charleston had been gone for 26 months when it arrived in San Diego Bay, which is home to 15 littoral combat ships. The Navy described the tour as a single deployment. But it was composed of separate, long tours carried out by different teams who alternately sailed the vessel, mostly in the Indo-Pacific.The service is now beginning to shift to using single crews to operate some of these warships, which are lightly-armed vessels that can help perform marine security and humanitarian relief.
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