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Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul recently seized more than $12 million in drugs in the Caribbean Sea, an example of how Littoral Combat Ships have found their niche with counternarcotics missions.
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