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Officials try to figure out how to repair USS Porter

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The Norfolk-based USS Porter is tied up at a pier in the United Arab Emirates while officials try to figure out how to repair it.

The guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.

Now according to Navy officials, the ship's commanding officer has not been relieved of duty.

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