Posted on 03/24/2025 9:48:44 AM PDT by EBH
Following last week’s deployment of the USS Gravely to the southern border, the U.S. Navy announced the departure of another Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to support border operations.
USS Spruance (DDG 111) will be patrolling the Pacific waters of the border region in the USNORTHCOM area of responsibility.
“USS Spruance’s deployment as part of U.S. Northern Command’s southern border mission brings additional capability and expands the geography of unique military capabilities working with the Department of Homeland Security,” said Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, U.S. Northern Command.
Last week the U.S. Northern Command deployed the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) as part of a new integrated response between the U.S. Coast Guard and the Navy to secure the southern border.
Gravely was deployed with Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) teams aboard specially trained for maritime interdiction missions, including counter-terrorism, alien migration interdiction, and homeland security operations. Spruance carries the same embedded USCG detachment on board.
“With Spruance off the West Coast and USS Gravely in the Gulf of America, our maritime presence contributes to the all-domain, coordinated DOD response to the Presidential Executive Order and demonstrates our resolve to achieve operational control of the border,” Guillot continued.
Spruance had returned to Naval Base San Diego in December 2024 after a five-months deployment in the 5th and 7th fleet areas of operation as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG). The destroyer participated in efforts to degrade the Houthi threat in the Red Sea area and escorted commercial vessels in international waterways around Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden.
The Trump effect: using the US Navy to protect the US.
You’d think that would be automatic. But without Trump, it wouldn’t have happened.
This is a wonderful use of our military.
It really is.
It is like they invented the navy to protect our own coasts from invasion and crime! Who knew?
Correct—this is what national defense really is...not spreading forces in one hundred countries around the planet making the world safe for perverts.
USA playing hardball these days and rightfully so!
💯.
Exactly!
GO NAVY!
[Chef’s kiss]
If I’m not mistaken, Admiral Raymond Spruance was chosen by Admiral Halsey to command the task force during the battle of Midway.
There was a video on X yesterday showing the miles of new concertina razor wire recently installed on the wall in California near San Diego and Tijuana. The reporter interviewing a CBP boss asked “Will the improved security on the fence result in more illegals entering the USA from the ocean? The CBP official said “Yes, but we are beefing up ocean security.”
And here we are, just one day later!
“ USA playing hardball these days and rightfully so!”
This is the very first time in our lives that the USA has been serious about protecting its own border.
I fully agree. This has value to our nation.
Not sure, but it was clear when Nimitz met him when the Enterprise came into Pearl Harbor after their raids in the South Pacific in the Marshall Islands, it was clear to Nimitz that Halsey was physically (and mentally) compromised and could not perform.
I cannot recall for sure, but when Nimitz told him he was going to choose Spruance, Halsey replied “That is who I would choose...”
They should be actively looking for narco subs, perfect for mission training and pursuant to national policy this year.
No mention of the Coast Guard. This is their job.
I will say this: I greatly admire Halsey, but like all great men, he had his faults, such as being too aggressive. (Not always a fatal fault in the military)
But he was tough. He apparently had shingles (and not a “skin rash” as history has maintained) which is enough to reduce any adult to insanity and cripple or even kill them on occasion. But he would have gone right back out again.
I have no idea how he could have done that, because historic view, backed up by eyewitnesses, was that it covered a large portion of his body.
I don’t care who you are, that’s TOUGH.
My kid serves aboard Spruance. There is a USCG Taclet team on board for this deployment.
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