Sailors To Live Onboard Navy Littoral Ships Hosted By Singapore
June 04 2012
The Singapore government has reportedly agreed in principle to permit the U.S. Navy to forward deploy up to four littoral combat ships to Singapore on a rotational basis, reports the Navy Times.
The agreement was reached Saturday after a meeting between Singapore's Defense Minister Ng En Hen and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting of regional defense ministers in Singapore.
The vessels will not be based or homeported in Singapore, according...
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