The Navy On Saturday it was announced that another torpedo hunter was sent to the southern border to help with the current maritime efforts to curb illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
Navy officials said that the USS Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-Class Guided Missile Destroyer, left the naval base San Diego Saturday to support the southern border operations.
The aim of the mission is to restore territorial integrity to the southern border of the US, according to a statement from the navy.
The USS Spruance is used in an American Northern Command area of ​​responsibility (American Navy)
Spruance will improve the maritime efforts, support cooperation between authorities and contribute to a coordinated and robust response to combating Maritime-related terrorismWeapon proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction and illegal sea migration, according to the statement.
“The use of USS Spruance as part of the Southern Border Mission of US Northern Command offers extra capacities and expands geography of unique military capacities that collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security,” said General Gregory Guilot, USNORthCom Commander.
He added that with Spruance in front of the west coast and the USS seriously, a recently destroyer in the Gulf of America, the maritime presence of the navy “contributes to the all-domain, coordinated DOD reaction to the presidential executive order and shows our determination control of the border.”
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A group of more than 100 illegal migrants tries to enter the US on the southern border through a border fence on March 21, 2024. (James Races for New York Post/Mega)
Fox News Digital officials of the Coast Guard told that hundreds earlier this month Migrant Boat -Meetings Were recorded in the last 90 days near the coast of San Diego, so that the allocation of additional resources was supplied.
Spruance will bring maritime capacities to the US Northern Command (USNIPHCC) in response to orders signed by the President Donald Trumpa national declaration of emergency and clarification of the role of the army in protecting the territorial integrity of the US
The warrior’s assignment “continues to fill up critical possibilities to support DHS and CBP,” said the statement.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided rocket destroyer USS Serious (DDG 107) returns to Marinestation Norfolk in Virginia. (US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anderson W. Branch)
The torpedo hunter will be accompanied by an embedded American coast guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) founded in 1982.
Ledets from the Coast Guard perform various maritime prohibition missions, including counter-piracy, military combat operations, company with extraterrestrial migration, protection of military forces, terrorism, domestic security and humanitarian response.
Spruance returned to the naval base San Diego December 19, 2024, after a five -month bet in the American 5th and 7th fleet areas of operation as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG).
The strike group was ordered to the US central command of responsibility to reinforce the attitude of the US military force in the middle, to dismiss regional escalation, to demolish Houthi capacities, defend American troops and to sail alongside allies and partners to promote safety, stability.
“Defined destroyers of the Abecsg, to record Spruance, were essential for offering a low defense to American troops and guaranteeing the safe passage of commercial ships and partner countries that turn into international waterways such as the Red Sea, Bab El-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf or Aden,” according to the statement.
