Power Outage Leaves USS Benfold Adrift for Four Days in South China Sea
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold lost power due to an engineering casualty involving its generators and drifted for four days in the South China Sea before being towed to Subic Bay; power was restored after two days, there were no injuries, meals were provided by USS Robert Smalls, and the episode occurs alongside broader discussions about deployed sailors' strain and morale amid ongoing carrier deployments.
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