{"id":152265,"date":"2026-01-27T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:31:07","slug":"san-diego-based-littoral-combat-ship-makes-a-port-call-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152265\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego-based littoral combat ship makes a port call in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USS-Cincinnati.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USS-Cincinnati.jpg\" alt=\"USS Cincinnati in Cambodia\" class=\"wp-image-365407\"  \/><\/a>Cambodian navy personnel watch as the USS Cincinnati docks. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy)<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego-based littoral combat ship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USSCincinnatiLCS20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS Cincinnati<\/a> made a port visit in Cambodia this month to support the U.S. military partnership with the South Asian nation, the Navy announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati arrived at Ream Naval Base on Saturday for public ship tours and meetings with Cambodian military and government officials <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to be welcomed by the Cambodian people at Ream Naval Base,\u201d said Capt. Matt Scarlett, commodore of Destroyer Squadron 7. \u201cWe are always excited to work alongside our partners and continue to build a free and open Indo-Pacific for all nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the port visit, Adm. Samuel Paparo, who heads the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, hosted Cambodian Minister of National Defense General Tea Seiha and Royal Cambodia Armed Forces Chief of Defense General Vong Pisen aboard the Cincinnati for discussions about the U.S.-Cambodian defense relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy said the warship\u2019s visit \u201cdemonstrates the deepening cooperation and expanding friendship between the U.S. and Royal Cambodian navies. Cambodia and the United States work shoulder-to-shoulder to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, another San Diego-based littoral combat ship, the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/military\/2024\/12\/16\/san-diego-based-uss-savannah-is-first-navy-ship-to-visit-china-ally-cambodia-in-8-years\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"297355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS Savannah<\/a>, also visited Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cambodian navy personnel watch as the USS Cincinnati docks. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy) The San Diego-based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[48278,75086,34257,5923,74,76,75,74396],"class_list":{"0":"post-152265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-cambodia","9":"tag-destroyer-squadron-7","10":"tag-littoral-combat-ship","11":"tag-navy","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-uss-cincinnati"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}