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The mission of DESRON 28 is to provide a fully trained, combat ready force of surface combatants. [1] Destroyer Squadron 28 is a squadron of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. As of January 2024 it was composed of the following ships: [3] USS Gonzalez (DDG-66) USS Cole (DDG-67) USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98)
USS Monsoon SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2023 [5] USS Typhoon SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2022 [6] USS Sirocco SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2023 [7] USS Squall SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2022 [8] USS Chinook SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2023 [9] USS Firebolt SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2022 [10] USS Whirlwind SHIP DECOMMISSIONED 2022 [11]
During World War II, COMDESRON 31 ships saw duty as members of the Northeastern Escort Force in Atlantic Fleet convoy escort operations. One squadron ship, USS Truxton (DD 229) was credited with the first sighting of an enemy submarine in the “Short-of-War” period just prior to World War II. On 31 October 1941, another squadron ship, USS ...
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
During 1994, USS Hue City (CG-66) was a unit of Carrier Group 8. [6] During 1999, the previous Carrier Group 8's flagship was Eisenhower.. In May and June 1998, Vella Gulf completed a two-month BALTOPS Cruise, taking part in the 26th annual maritime exercise BALTOPS '98 in the Western Baltic Sea from 8–19 June 1998.
The Lend-Lease Act was passed into law in the US in March 1941 enabling the United Kingdom to procure merchant ships, warships and munitions etc. from the US, in order to help with the war effort. This enabled the UK to commission the US to design, build and supply an escort vessel that was suitable for anti submarine warfare in deep open ocean ...
As flagship of Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 28, the ship was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet on 5 October, based at Norfolk, Virginia, and operated off the east coast and in the Caribbean through the end of 1952. Trathen at sea on 3 September 1952. Subsequently ordered to the Far East, Trathen arrived at Sasebo, Japan, on 12 February 1953.
USS Fiske (DD/DDR-842) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske (1854–1942), inventor of the Stadimeter and the aerial torpedo. Fiske was launched on 8 September 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. F. E. Ribbentrop; and commissioned on 28 November ...