In Navy destroyer's mission to Texas coast, a return of 'gunboat diplomacy'
The Pentagon wants a U.S. Navy destroyer to help shake things up along the southern border. Earlier this month, the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, deployed the USS Gravely to the waters off the ...
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Second U.S. Destroyer Patrols the Southern Border
The United States Navy is engaged in twenty-first-century “gunboat diplomacy” after it announced that a second Arleigh ...
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Why the Pentagon is moving a Navy destroyer from the Middle East to the Texas coast
The USS Gravely, a Navy destroyer, is making its way from Yorktown, Va. toward the waters off the Texas coast.
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Trump allows US Navy to shoot Iranian gunboats “out of the water” if they get too close
US Navy ships will shoot Iranian gunboats that get too close 'out of the water,' President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after 11 vessels from Iran's elite fighting force came dangerously close ...
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Naval Training Ship U.S.S. Yantic
Yantic, an 1864 wooden hull gunboat, was based at Hancock, Michigan, from 1907 to 1917, on loan from the U.S. Navy for use as a training ship for the second battalion of the Michigan Naval Militia. In ...