What it's really like aboard a US Navy destroyer on a record-breaking, 215-day deployment at sea

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What it's really like aboard a US Navy destroyer on a record-breaking, 215-day deployment at sea
Courtney Mabeus
 

    When USS Stout left Virginia's Naval Station Norfolk in January, masks and social distancing were not part of everyday life.
    Nine months later, Stout returned after a record-long deployment, during which the crew grappled with the monotony and tension of being at sea during a pandemic.
 

Extremely boring.

Long, exhausting hours.

It sucked.

That's how one crew member from guided-missile destroyer USS Stout described the ship's record-breaking 215 days at sea during a deployment punctuated by COVID-19.

https://www.businessinsider.com/life-aboard-navy-destroyer-during-record-long-deployment-at-sea-2020-11

[AL]

That's a long time to be deployed.  They had a liberty call at Rota.  Been there a couple times, even if you can go off base its not much of a liberty stop.  Hopefully they get an additional E on the stack, if nothing else for endurance.