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Several ships have broken the record for continuous days at sea this year, and crews are enduring deployment lengths that go beyond Big Navy's readiness schedule.
Master-at-Arms 1st Class Patrick X. Gilyard, 38, exhibited “signs of a stroke” on Sept. 28 in the Central American nation and was evacuated to the states on Sept. 30.