USNI News:
THE PENTAGON – Repairs to the stricken guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) will take more than a year to complete but those to USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) may take less time, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer said on Wednesday.
Speaking to a group of reporters, Spencer said it would be a high priority to fix the two ships that were each involved in a fatal collision with merchant ships. In total, 17 sailors died as a result of the collisions.
“Fitzgerald is going to be more than year. We haven’t had the full assessment of McCain yet but I would hope that would be a much quicker fix because the combat systems weren’t damaged in that case,” Spencer said.
“Needless to say, we need to get McCain and Fitz back out there as quickly as we can.”
