Austal has welcomed news that Expeditionary Fast Transport 2 (T-EPF-2), USNS Choctaw County, has been forward deployed to the US Navy 5th Fleet in Bahrain. The 103m USNS Choctaw County arrived in NSA Bahrain in February and is the first ship of its kind to operate in the US Navy’s Naval Forces Central Command area - which includes the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, North Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
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