USS Oscar Austin Fire Damage Repairs Will Stretch into 2022

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The guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) arrives at homeport Naval Station Norfolk. Navy photo.

The guided-missile destroyer damaged in a fire in a Norfolk maintenance yard last year won’t rejoin the fleet until at least 2022, USNI News has learned.

USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) will undergo repairs caused by the fire at least into the first quarter of 2022, according to an unclassified Navy maintenance summary reviewed by USNI News. The summary included a request from...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/04/uss-oscar-austin-fire-damage-repairs-will-stretch-into-2022

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