US Navy destroyer adrift in South China Sea for four days after losing power - The Guardian — SkimNews
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- USS Benfold lost power from an engineering casualty and was left adrift in the South China Sea for four days, per The Guardian and USNI News.
- The Daily Beast framed the breakdown as the latest failure deepening "Trump's Navy Crisis," casting the incident in political-readiness terms.
Why it matters: A four-day loss of power on a forward-deployed destroyer in the contested South China Sea is a serious operational lapse; the Daily Beast's headline explicitly characterizes it as the newest symptom of a deepening Navy crisis under Trump.
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