The destroyer USS Stockdale will take over from USS Spruance, which started supporting border safety efforts in March.
The U.S. Navy has dispatched a warship to assist help ongoing U.S. border safety operations on April 11.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale departed from Naval Base San Diego on Friday, with orders to help multi-agency efforts alongside the U.S.–Mexico border.
A U.S. Coast Guard Legislation Enforcement Detachment is embarked aboard the destroyer, and the ship stands prepared to help in a variety of missions, together with maritime interdictions and humanitarian operations.
Stockdale is taking up obligations for the destroyer USS Spruance, which deployed from San Diego on March 22.
“Our southern border is underneath assault from quite a lot of threats. The complexity of the present state of affairs requires that our army take a extra direct function in securing our southern border than within the latest previous,” Trump wrote within the memo, addressed to Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem, Inside Secretary Doug Burgum, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Trump’s memo specifies federal lands the place the army could assert management to be able to facilitate the set up of recent border obstacles, together with detection and monitoring gear.
Since taking workplace in January, Trump has boosted the general army footprint alongside the U.S.–Mexico border.
Earlier than this deployment, Stockdale had taken half in a seven-month unbiased deployment throughout the Pacific, spanning the U.S. third and seventh Fleet areas of operation.
As Stockdale’s latest deployment wore on, the destroyer went on to deploy to the U.S. fifth Fleet space of operations within the Center East, the place it joined up with the Lincoln Provider Strike Group and helped repel drone and missile assaults Yemen’s Houthi rebels directed at ships working within the area. The warship additionally carried out escort operations to guard U.S.-flagged vessels within the Gulf of Aden.
Stockdale wrapped up this seven-month tour of responsibility and returned to its house port in San Diego in February.
Invoice Pan contributed to this report.