Pentagon officials announced that the Navy has deployed the USS Gravely to the Gulf of America and the USS Spruance to the West Coast in order to assist border security operations.
United States Northern Command sent the Gravely, which is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, from Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Virginia to the Gulf of America. Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said the move shows that the United States must both “have control of our border via land” and be able to “control our territorial waters” near the southern border.
