U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Rachel Preston, left, shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as he tours the USS Freedom (LCS 1) in Singapore on June 2, 2013. Hagel is touring the ship to visit with the crew and to watch a demonstration of a reconfigurable and waterborne mission. Freedom is the Navy’s first littoral combat ship and is forward deployed for operations out of Singapore.