{"id":92226,"date":"2019-10-29T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92226"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:44:30","slug":"uss-john-mccain-gets-underway-two-years-after-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92226","title":{"rendered":"USS John McCain Gets Underway Two Years After Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89733\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-89733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Damage-on-left-side-of-USS-MCCAIN-PO2-Joshua-Fulton-slash-US-Navy-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Damage-on-left-side-of-USS-MCCAIN-PO2-Joshua-Fulton-slash-US-Navy-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Damage-on-left-side-of-USS-MCCAIN-PO2-Joshua-Fulton-slash-US-Navy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Damage-on-left-side-of-USS-MCCAIN-PO2-Joshua-Fulton-slash-US-Navy-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Damage on left side of USS MCCAIN. (PO2 Joshua Fulton\/US Navy)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The USS John McCain went back to sea in order to conduct sea trials. One goal for these trials is to test the repairs and another goal is to test the ship&#8217;s ability to conduct operations. This includes navigation, combat information center functions, communications, etc. This process will take months.<\/p>\n<p>Before getting underway, crewmembers conducted in-port training. During the repairing phase, it appeared that workers found the damage to be more extensive than what was originally reported.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Military Times:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While undergoing repairs in Yokosuka, Japan, these past two years, the McCain&#8217;s computer network, antenna systems, radar and berthing were all upgraded as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mending the McCain had been expected to be relatively straightforward compared to the repairs needed to fix sister destroyer Fitzgerald, which suffered its own fatal west Pacific collision in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But workers discovered earlier this year that McCain&#8217;s port shaft &#8212; which runs through the hull and turns one of the vessel&#8217;s twin screws &#8212; was out of alignment, Defense News reported in July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Navy Times article could be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/10\/28\/more-than-two-years-after-fatal-collision-warship-mccain-returns-to-the-sea\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USS John McCain went back to sea in order to conduct sea trials. One goal &hellip; <a title=\"USS John McCain Gets Underway Two Years After Collision\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92226\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS John McCain Gets Underway Two Years After Collision<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92229,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92226\/revisions\/92229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}